城镇的性质:反思与检讨——来自新制度经济学与新经济地理学的理论解读

新制度经济学中的交易费用是分析城镇性质的重要概念,新经济地理学为我们认识城镇的空间区位选择与多重效应集聚提供了新的分析框架。正是由于支撑城镇系统的企业、政府、家庭和其他组织等子系统在追求各主体利益最大化的过程中实现了对交易费用的节约,才导致了城镇系统的发展有其内在根本动力,进而也成为区域自我发展能力提升和城镇化趋势在世界不同区域持续演进的根本原因。

On the Characters of Urban Area: Introspection and Self-criticism

The development of the economy in the real world enlightens us that the cost of transacting of the new institutional economics is the very important concept to analysis the towns and cities' characteristics,and also,the new economic geography gives us a new analysis frame to understanding the cities development.It is the reduce of the cost of transacting that makes the enterprises,governments and the consumers to realize their economic profits during the course of the different conducts.And that is the moti...