理解新经济地理学

20世纪80年代以来,国际经济地理学术界出现了两种“新经济地理学”,分别隶属于经济学和地理学。然而由于两学科在研究传统和学科分析框架等方面的差异,导致两种新经济地理学在研究思维、方法和内容等众多方面存在相当大的分歧。经济学的新经济地理学的分析框架可以分为视角、参照系和分析工具三部分;地理学的新经济地理学的分析框架可以分为观察、实地调查、原因分析和政策建议与理论提升四部分。正是这种学科研究传统和分析框架的差异导致两种新经济地理学的分异,同时也成为理解两种新经济地理学的出发点和突破口。本文回顾了对新经济地理学争论的两个焦点,从学科的分析框架出发对两种新经济地理学的前提假设、研究思路、研究内容和发展趋势等进行对比分析,指出经济学与地理学的互相借鉴和融合对发展新经济地理学科的重要性。

Understanding of new economic geography

Since the 1980s, two kinds of "new economic geography" in the international academia have emerged, one belonged to the economics, and the other was from geography. However, different constitutional research traditions and analysis frameworks between economics and geography resulted in considerable differences in the research thinking, methodology and content in the two kinds. The analytical framework of new economic geography in economics could be divided into three parts: perspective, reference and analytical tool, while that in geography consisted of four parts: observation, investigation, analysis, policy recommendations and theory promotion. However, what led to the differences of the two new economic geographies just helped to understand them. This paper reviewed the two debates of the two new economic geographies first, and then comparatively analyzed their assumptions, research ideas, research content and development trends by the frameworks. Finally, the paper proposed that it is very important for both the economists and geographers to learn from each other and use mutual elites for references. In this paper, the ideas of the differences with previous studies are mainly reflected in three aspects. First we proposed a new analytical framework for geographical economics. Second, we focused on two kinds of theories and the research content and progress based on the analytical methodology and framework. Finally, we not only presented its similarities and differences from the assumptions, research content, but also concentrated on the research tradition and analytical framework.