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The 2013 update revisits Alfred Marshall’s trinity (labor pooling, input sharing, knowledge spillovers) through the lens of Silicon Valley 2.0 and Shenzhen. It introduces empirical methods for measuring "knowledge externalities" using patent citation data. modern urban and regional economics pdf upd
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