经济地理学与区域经济学的区分

经济地理学和区域经济学目标对象的相似性及理论观点上的互相借鉴使得其特殊性渐渐模糊起来。为此,文章在总结现有研究成果基础上,从研究组分、研究内容层次、哲学思维等三个方面分析两者间的差异。在研究组分上,经济地理学与区域经济学研究可分为经济地理学独有部分（经济活动的地理基础、区域可持续发展等）,区域经济学独有部分（区域专业化、产业集聚等）和两学科共有部分（经济活动区位、经济空间相互作用等）;在研究内容上,经济地理学研究地理圈层间的关系,重点研究人类经济活动与地理环境的关系以及人类经济活动在地表的投影,区域经济学研究经济圈层内不同经济体间的关系;在哲学思维上,经济地理学以归纳为主,强调人地关系的和谐,而区域经济学以演绎和数学推理为主,强调经济效果的最优化。以上分析有助于理清两学科间的实质差异,从而在相互学习中促进两学科的发展。

The Differences Between Economic Geography and Regional Economics：New Perspectives

Economic geography and regional economics have similar targets and borrow concepts and theories of each others,which make their particularity gradually blurred.Therefore,based on the existing research,this paper analyzes their differences from perspectives of research components,research content and philosophical thinking.From research components perspective,the research of economic geography and regional economics can be divided into the unique part of economic geography(regional sustainable development),the unique part of regional economics(regional specialization and industrial agglomeration) and the common parts of two subjects(industrial location theory,agricultural location theory,the interaction between economic spaces).From research content perspective,economic geography studies the relations between different geographical layers,and focuses on the relation between human economic activities and geographical environment and the position of Human economic activities on the earth surface.In philosophical thinking,economic geography primarily applies induction,and emphasizes the harmony between human and geographical environment,while regional economics gives priority to the deduction and mathematical logic,and emphasizes the optimization of economic outcome.The above analysis helps clarify the essential differences between the two subjects,and which in turn may encourage the development of the two disciplines by mutual learning.