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Neighbours and Neighbourhoods

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The concept of neighbourhood has long been a topic of popular discourse and a subject of academic interest. Despite this attention, there is little agreement on what the term ‘neighbourhood’ means. The American Heritage Dictionary (Pickett 2000) simply defines a neighbourhood as ‘a district or an area with distinctive characteristics’.

This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume

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    Ellen, I.G. (2008). Neighbours and Neighbourhoods. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_2400-1

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