Masahisa Fujita

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Masahisa Fujita ( Japanese 藤田 昌 久 , Fujita Masahisa ; born July 21, 1943 in Yamaguchi Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese economist and urban planner who is considered to be the co-founder of spatial economics and a pioneer of the New Economic Geography . Fujita's research fields are urban economics , regional economics and spatial economics. Fujita is also a professor at Kōnan University .

education

Fujita obtained a B.Sc. in 1966. in engineering from Kyoto University , majoring in urban planning, before earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. in regional science. Fujita studied at the University of Pennsylvania under Walter Isard , the founder of regional science as an academic discipline.

Professional background

After completing his doctorate, Fujita returned to Japan and took a position at Kyoto University as an assistant professor of transportation in 1973 before returning to the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. In 1981 he was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor and in 1986 to professor of regional science, but in 1994 he moved to the department of economics. In 1995 Fujita returned to Japan, where he became a professor at the Institute of Economic Research at Kyoto University. From 2003 to 2007, Fujita was also President of the Institute of Developing Economies at JETRO . In 2007 Fujita followed a call to Kōnan University , but remains an adjunct professor at Kyoto University. In addition, he has been President and Chief Research Officer of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry, IAA, since 2007 .

research

According to the economic publications database IDEAS , Fujita is among the 3% of the most research-intensive economists (896th place) in the overall ranking. Fujita also clearly belongs to the top 5% of the economists recorded in the database when it comes to criteria such as "number of citations" or "number of papers". Fujita's most cited publication is a book called The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade (2001), co- authored with Anthony J. Venables and Paul Krugman . In this book, Fujita, Krugman, and Venables set out how a joint approach that combines the interplay of increasing yields, transportation costs, and the movement of factors of production can be applied to a wide variety of urban , regional, and international economics topics . It represents a basic work of the New Economic Geography , as it was the first book that offered a coherent and uniform explanation of the existence of large-scale economic agglomerations on different spatial levels.

Other important economic contributions of Fujita are the development of an economic model for agglomerations (with Thisse, 1996), an investigation of the development of hierarchical urban systems (with Krugman and Tomoya, 1999) as well as the development of a non-monocentric city model and the interpretation of the modeled urban development (with Ogawa, 1982).

Awards

  • Tord Palander Prize (1983)
  • Walter Isard Award (with Jean Paelinck, 1998)
  • Alonso Prize (with Paul Krugman, 2002)

Memberships

Publications

Books

  • Fujita, Masahisa (1989): Urban Economic Theory , Cambridge University Press.
  • Fujita, Masahisa, Paul Krugman , Anthony J. Venables (2001): The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade , MIT Press.
  • Fujita, Masahisa, Jacques François Thisse (2002): Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth , Cambridge University Press.
  • Fujita, Masahisa (Ed.) (2005): Spatial Economics, Volume I and Volume II , The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., United Kingdom.
  • Fujita, Masahisa (Ed.) (2007): Regional Integration in East Asia: From the Viewpoint of Spatial Economics , Macmillan, United Kingdom.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overall ranking of the economic database IDEAS (English)
  2. ↑ Author profile of Masahisa Fujita on IDEAS (English)
  3. Jump up ↑ Fujita, Masahisa, Paul Krugman, Anthony J. Venables (2001): The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade , MIT Press.
  4. ↑ Quotes from Fujita's publications on IDEAS (English)
  5. ↑ NARSC Awards & Prizes (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Fujita, Masahisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 藤田 昌 久 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese economist and city planner
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Yamaguchi Prefecture , Japan