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Masahisa Fujita (born in 1943) is a Japan|Japanese
economist and professor at Kyoto university, who
has studied regional science and Urban Economics
and International Trade, Spatial Economy (New
Economic Geography).

Fujita majored in urban planning as an
undergraduate at Kyoto University. He studied
regional science in University of Pennsylvania
under Warter Isard and obtained a Ph.D.(in
Regional Science) from University of Pennsylvania
in 1972. He taught at University of Pennsylvania
for about 20 years, and has been the faculty of
Institute of Economic Research(KIER) Kyoto
University since 1995, where he served as Director
in 1999.

Especially Fujita is known as one of the pioneers
of New Economic Geography, research of Spatial
Economy as well as Paul Krugman. 
Fujita is the recipient of the 1983 Tord Palander
Prize, the 1998 Warter Isard Award in regional
science, and also awarded First Alonso Prize with
Paul Krugman.

===Authored or co-authored===

*Economics of Agglomeration - Cities, Indutrial
Location, and Regional Growth(with
Jacques-Francois Thisse)(2002, Cambridge
University Press)(ISBN 0521805244)
*The Spatial Economy - Cities, Regions and
International Trade (with Paul Krugman, Anthony
Venables)(July 1999, MIT press)(ISBN
0-262-06204-6)
*Urban Economic Theory - Land use and city
size(August 1989, Cambridge University Press)(ISBN
0521346622)
*Spatial Development Planning(1978, North-Holland
Pub. Co)(ISBN 0444851577)

==External links==
* http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ Kyoto University 
* http://www.kier.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html
Institute of Economic Research Kyoto
University(KIER)


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