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This in-depth study of the economics of urbanization and development explores the key characteristics of urban-rural patterns of production and consumption in developing countries--particularly Brazil, China, and India--as well as government policies affecting urbanization. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical research, Henderson investigates rural-urban migration, changes in the production patterns in cities, the drain of skilled workers from small towns, individual city restrictions on growth and entry, and other phenomena.

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As a thorough and systematic exposition of how urban economies function, it is to be warmly welcomed. --Urban Studies A book of major importance that should become a key building block for urban theorists and a reference point for policy analysis in the coming decade....Establishes the benchmark against which further neoclassical models, nonneoclassical models, and critiques of economic spatial theory will be evaluated--and developed. --Journal of Regional Science As a thorough and systematic exposition of how urban economies function, it is to be warmly welcomed. --Urban Studies [An] impressive collection. --Journal of Developing Areas A most interesting and useful book, weaving several of J.V. Henderson's most important essays into a coherent whole and adding significant new research. It is theoretically rigorous, yet accessible to nonspecialists because of concise chapter summaries and policy-oriented chapters. All things considered, Henderson has produced a book that will be the standard reference in urban economic development for some years. --Andrew R. Morrison, Tulane University (in Journal of Economic Literature) It's about time someone wrote this book, and nobody is better qualified than J. Vernon Henderson> --Scott McKinney, Hobart and William Smith College An impressive presentation. --Roger Riefler, University of Nebraska A definitive work in the genre. --Choice

"""As a thorough and systematic exposition of how urban economies function, it is to be warmly welcomed.""--Urban Studies ""A book of major importance that should become a key building block for urban theorists and a reference point for policy analysis in the coming decade....Establishes the benchmark against which further neoclassical models, nonneoclassical models, and critiques of economic spatial theory will be evaluated--and developed.""--Journal of Regional Science ""As a thorough and systematic exposition of how urban economies function, it is to be warmly welcomed.""--Urban Studies ""[An] impressive collection.""--Journal of Developing Areas ""A most interesting and useful book, weaving several of J.V. Henderson's most important essays into a coherent whole and adding significant new research. It is theoretically rigorous, yet accessible to nonspecialists because of concise chapter summaries and policy-oriented chapters. All things considered, Henderson has produced a book that will be the standard reference in urban economic development for some years.""--Andrew R. Morrison, Tulane University (in Journal of Economic Literature) ""It's about time someone wrote this book, and nobody is better qualified than J. Vernon Henderson>""--Scott McKinney, Hobart and William Smith College ""An impressive presentation.""--Roger Riefler, University of Nebraska """"A definitive work in the genre.""--Choice"

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