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Appendix<br />
Page 89<br />
In lecture 2, I concluded by alluding to recent modeling work of mine that seems both to validate and to<br />
integrate several of the ''outcast" traditions in economic geography: central-place theory, the market<br />
potential approach, and the idea of circular and cumulative causation. In this appendix I present the<br />
basic model that I have been using to explore these traditions. Parts of this approach have been<br />
published elsewhere; I first examined a two-location version of the model in Krugman (1991), explored<br />
the possibilities of a single-city economy and showed the usefulness of the market potential approach in<br />
Krugman (1993b), and showed how cumulative processes can lead to an approximate central-place<br />
out<strong>com</strong>e in Krugman (1993a). Here I offer an integrated treatment, of which all of these results can be<br />
seen as special cases.<br />
While the model is simple in conception, and the results we get are quite intuitive, sometimes the<br />
dynamic analysis defies paper-and-pencil analytics. Thus the approach relies heavily on numerical<br />
examples. This is currently an unfashionable theoretical technique, but as we will see it is highly<br />
productive in this case.<br />
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