经济学中的新经济地理学,源于20世纪80年代对新国际贸易理论和竞争优势经济学的研究。20世纪90年代以克鲁格曼为代表的新经济地理学理论为产业集聚的产生提供了很好的解释。新经济地理学将传统的贸易理论所强调的趋同力量与20世纪50年代以来的发展经济学家所描述的趋异力量融入到一个共同的分析框架内。这样做的好处在于它使得人们可以将趋同力量与趋异力量与微观经济状况结合起来。我们可以更好地理解与经济一体化过程相关的基本倾向以及区域政策对产业集群的影响。
New economic geography in the economics incorporated the studies on Neo - international business theories and competitive advantage economics in the 1980's. New economic geography theories have offered a good explanation to the growth of industrial cluster. This paper analyzes briefly the background of new economic geography, introduces emphatically the discussions about industrial cluster theory in the 1990's that Krugman- - - the delegate of new economic geography has done, while we combs all sorts of standpoints on industrial cluster that other new econom- ic geography scholars, besides Krugman, have put forward, exploring new progress in industrial cluster and combining to make synoptic comments into these new economic geography theories accordingly.