Most economic activity occurs in cities. This creates a tension between local increasing returns, implied by the existence of cities, and aggregate constant returns, implied by balanced growth. To address this tension, we develop a theory of economic growth in an urban environment. We show that...

Most economic activity occurs in cities. This creates a tension between local increasing returns, implied by the existence of cities, and aggregate constant returns, implied by balanced growth. To address this tension, we develop a general equilibrium theory of economic growth in an urban...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview -- 3 Mathematical Preliminaries -- 4 Dynamic Programming under Certainty -- 5 Applications of Dynamic Programming under Certainty -- 6 Deterministic Dynamics -- 7 Measure Theory and Integration -- 8 Markov Processes -- 9 Stochastic...