关键词: 新经济地理学, 经济学, 地理学, 方法论, 分析框架

Abstract: 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.

Key words: new economic geography, economics, geography, methodology, analytical framework