Advanced Development Economics

Author: Zhou Tianyong
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book primarily analyzes the transformation and development process of the dual economy from the perspective of spatial structural changes, focusing on constructing an economic development analysis framework of "transfer—aggregation—network." It forms an analytical framework for development economics that progresses from "the scattered and isolated state of traditional society—economic efficiency brought by transfer—economic and diseconomic efficiency of concentration and aggregation—relationships between enterprise size structure, employment, and fairness after population concentration—network structures connected with modern urban agglomeration nodes and networks." The book argues that economic development is a process where various production factors such as population, various organizations such as enterprises, infrastructure, information, and various transaction media such as markets geographically concentrate, not merely a process of industrial structure change. Economic development is the transformation from an isolated state to a network structure, and the transformation of the dual economy is essentially a shift from a scattered and isolated structure to a concentrated node and network structure. The book analyzes the relationship between concentration and isolation, transfer is the driving force of economic development, and explores the role mechanism of agglomeration economies in the process of factor transfer from isolation to concentration. On this basis, using the analysis methods of network economics, it studies the impact of network structural changes on agglomeration economies and transfer economies, concluding that under network conditions, urban scale and economic organization scale are not constants but continuously changing. The book also conducts an in-depth study of employment issues related to population and labor in the transfer and aggregation process. Focusing on theoretical innovation, the book reconstructs analytical methods, broadens readers' perspectives, inspires thinking, and aims to spark further reflection and research.