产业的空间集聚和经济增长是一个相伴而生、难以分离的过程。然而长期以来,关于产业集聚和增长相互关系的研究沿着两条分离的路径进行,直到上世纪90初,新经济地理学才开始试图把主流经济学长期忽视的空间因素纳入到一般均衡的分析框架中,特别是近几年来,新经济地理学家们又进行了把原来的静态模型动态化的努力,试图把经济增长和空间集聚放到统一的框架下进行研究,取得了一系列的成果。本文将对这一领域内的前沿研究成果进行梳理,并对该理论的发展脉络进行述评。
Spatial agglomeration and economic growth go hand-in-hand. However, the analysis of agglomeration and economic growth has developed along two separate streams. Until the beginning of 1990's, the new economic geography model didn't reintroduce the spatial factor neglected by the Mainstream Economics for a long period into the general equilibrium frame. Especially in recent years, the researcher of new economic geography began to made economic growth and spatial agglomeration into one frame and attained a serious of constructions. This paper presents the main achievements in the research of new economic geography and evaluates the theoretical development of this scope in brief.