Subject(s): geography , trade and development, World economy, Economic interactions, Rapid change in the distribution of production and population -- Economic geograph -- Geography and economic theory -- Regional and urban economics, International trade theory, Economic growth and development -- Core models and empirical evidence -- Geographical economics, Demand and supply, Transport costs, Multiple locations, equilibrium -- Beyond the core model: solutions, simulations and extensions -- Short run equilibrium, Transport costs and introduction of the tomahawk, Sustain and break analysis, Intermediate inputs without interregional labour mobility, Bell-shaped curve and generalized model, Solvable model: two factors of production in manufactures, Racetrack economy: many locations in neutral space in the core model -- Agglomeration, Home market effect, and spatial wages -- Spatial distribution of economic activity, spatial wage structure and the real market potential -- Shocks, Freeness of trade and stability -- Shock sensitivity: Impact of shock on equilibria , Trade costs and agglomeration: bumpy road from theory to empirics and back -- Applications and extensions -- Cities and congestion: economics of scale, urban system and Zipf's law -- Agglomeration economies and cities: Urban economics, Congestion as an additional spreading force, -- Agglomeration and international business -- Multinational production, Multinational in geographical economics, Empirical evidence on the role of agglomeration in FDI -- Structure of international trade -- Two manufacturing sectors, Comparative advantage: David Ricardo, Factor abundance, Migration, gravity and trade -- Dynamics , growth and geography -- Adjustment dynamics, Stylized facts of economic growth, Endogenous growth and geographical economics, Simulation dynamics: Reduction of transport cost, Agglomeration and economic growth, Geographical and institutions as deep determinants of economic development -- Policy and evaluation -- Policy implications of geographical economics -- Six basic policy implications of the core models, Agglomeration rents, public policy and policy competition, Simple policy experiment in non-neutral space , welfare implications, policy relevance of geographical economics -- Criticism and the value added of geographical economics