How should multilateral trade policy be designed in a world in which countries differ in terms of market access and technology, and firms with market power differ in terms of productivity? We answer this question in a model of monopolistic competition in which variable markups increasing in firm size are a key source of misallocation across firms and countries. We use ‘disadvantaged’ to refer t...

OST scholars in geography and related social sciences have recognized that the locational structure of man’s economic, political and cultural activities is not in a static state. Yet very little attempt has been made to conceptualize the manner by which the spatial arrangement of man’s establishments change over time. This study seeks to provide at least a partial solution for meeting this need...

I want to begin the first of my three annual progress reports on industrial geography by claiming that industrial geography, at least as I know it, has done very well within the geographical and, perhaps even, the wider social-scientific discourses. I am pleased the subdiscipline has lived up to the concluding remark by Taylor (1986: 412) in his progress report some 14 years ago that industrial...

Five hundred millions of tweets are posted daily, making Twitter a major social media from which topical information on events can be extracted. Events are represented by time, location and entityrelated information. This paper focuses on location which is an important clue for both users and geo-spatial applications. We address the problem of predicting whether a tweet contains a location or n...

In economic geography the notion of the network has come to play a critical role in a range of debates. Yet, networks hardly are construed in an explicit fashion but rather are assumed as some sort of more enduring social relations. This paper seeks to foreground these implicit assumptions – and their limitations – by tracing the selective engagement of economic geography with network approache...

The rise of social media has been accompanied by a rise in spaces devoted to various forms of sexual interaction. While online porn receives the most attention, it is hardly the only form of online sexual content. Examples include erotic uses of Twitter, Second Life, and the Google Maps API. What are the characteristics of technology-mediated intimacy, and how can interaction designers build bo...

In my first progress report (Yeung, 2000a) I concluded that a more pluralistic industrial geography in recent years has gone beyond conventional economic issues by incorporating some ‘new’ economic knowledges and by providing good glimpses of alternative worlds of industrial change. This incorporation relates to the introduction of social and cultural understandings of conventional economic iss...

Few cases in the history of epidemiology and public health are more famous than John Snow's investigation of a neighborhood cholera outbreak in the St. James, Westminster, area of London in 1854. In this study Snow is assumed to have proven that cholera was water rather than airborne through a methodology that became, and to a great extent remains, central to the science and social science of d...