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The article discusses studies pertaining to U.S. Intra-City Business Areas in the 1930's. The study was designed to determine specific business conditions in various parts of the city. The study revealed four principle types of retail structure. They are the central business district, the outlying business center, the neighborhood business district, and the isolated store cluster. The central business district draws customers from all parts of the city and outlying suburbs. Intra-city business data reveals the relative importance by volume of sales and number of stores of each business area within a given city.

We consider an economic geography model of a new genre: All firms and workers are mobile and their agglomeration within a city generates costs through competition on a housing market. In the case of two sectors, contrasted patterns arise. When one good is perfectly mobile, the corresponding industry is partially dispersed whereas the other is agglomerated, thus showing regional specialization. When one sector supplies a nontradeable consumption good, this sector is more agglomerated than the other. The corresponding equilibrium involves an urban hierarchy in that a larger array of varieties of the two goods is produced within the same city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Policy debates over energy pricing frequently pit ‘producing states’ against ‘consuming states.’ Such a distinction ignores the fact that ownership of energy-producing and energy-using assets is geographically dispersed, and that trade links regional economies. Incorporating these factors as well as alternative patterns of the incidence of higher gas prices into an analysis of natural gas decontrol reveals a significant influence on the net interregional transfers resulting from decontrol. Apparent ‘consuming’ regions could benefit from gas decontrol, and ‘consuming’ regions generally do not benefit from policies that tax producer windfalls from decontrol and then redistribute the revenues as compensation to gas users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors comment on Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's article on economic hybridity, ritual expenditures and Georges Bataille's concept of "general economy." They present queries about the models presented focusing on the Yang's sources of theoretical inspiration and not her use of them. They question whether Bataille's vision of capitalism is not itself caught in capitalism's self-mythologization as a desacralized and productivist space and worry about the slippage between the linguistic and the biological notion of hybridity.

The author comments on Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's article on economic hybridity, ritual expenditures and Georges Bataille's concept of "general economy." She states that the article provides a provocative argument about local cultural autonomy, subversions of global capitalism as well as the complexities of socioeconomic and cultural transformations in China. She asserts that culture in Wenzhou is positioned within a field of inequalities and as readily manifested in conflict and fragmentation as in order and stability.

The author comments on Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's article on economic hybridity, ritual expenditures and Georges Bataille's concept of "general economy." He states that religious practice and the ritual expenditure on spectacular performances of sacrifice and destruction are not activities usually associated with rapid regional economic development. He asserts that the paper did not unfold stories of religious squandering, general sacrifice, indulgent consumption and tomb building into the dominant narrative of global capitalist penetration. What Yang aimed to confront in her search for new conceptual vocabularies is the lingering influence of economic determinism.