Making sense of the manufacturing belt: Determinants of U.S. Industrial Location, 1880-1920

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 775-807

  Klein, Alexander ^a   Crafts, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Factor endowments; Linkage effects; Manufacturing belt; Market potential; New economic geography

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INDUSTRIAL LINKAGE; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION DECISION; MANUFACTURING; MARKET CONDITIONS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84863469241     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbr023     Document Type: Article

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