Lectures on Location Theory
Continuing the (neo-)classical tradition of von Thünen, Launhardt, Weber, Palander, and Lösch this book offers a fresh approach to the location of industries and other economic activities, of market areas, spatial price distribution, locational specializa
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Martin J. Beckmann
Lectures on
Location Theory With 36 Figures and 4 Tables
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Prof. Dr. Martin J. Beckmann Brown University Economics Department 64 Waterman Street 02912 Providence, RI USA
ISBN 978-3-642-08501-7 Llbrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beckmann, Martin J. Lectures on location theory I Martin J. Beckmann. p. cm. ISBN 978-3-642-08501-7 ISBN 978-3-662-03762-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-03762-1 1. Industriallocation. 2. Space in economics. 3. Time - Economic aspects. 1. Title HD58.B319 1999 338.6'042 - dc21 99-25888 CIP
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Preface
This textbook is short, because it does not aim to be comprehensive, i.e., presenting and explaining every line of approach that was ever tried on spatial phenomena by economists, geographers or social scientists. Rather, it sticks to one line of argument as closely as possible, following as far as possible established (non-spatial) microeconomic theory. This permits one to try for consistency and systematics throughout. In this it resembles my earlier "Location Theory", (Random House, New York, 1968) of which, however, it is not a second edition. My intent has been to bring order (in truly Germanic fashion) to a somewhat uneven and disconnected field which is known to abound in ad hoc reasoning and as lacking the rigor and charm of general economic theory. To the small band of location theorists it is, however, an object of great beauty which we are not adverse to share with others. My friend and repeated co-author Tonu Puu has just published his own "Mathe" matical Location and Land Use Theory" addressed to the mathematically minded. The present book is cast at the more elementary level and written for general economists. Mathematical arguments are given in notes at the end of each chapter. Now integrating location theory into n
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