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New Frontiers in Regional Science

Essays in Honour of Walter Isard, Volume 1

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Walter Isard: Scholar, Teacher and Founder

    1. Walter Isard: Scholar, Teacher and Founder

      • Manas Chatterji, Robert E. Kuenne
      Pages 1-9
  3. Introduction: New Frontiers in Regional Science

    1. Introduction: New Frontiers in Regional Science

      • Manas Chatterji, Robert E. Kuenne
      Pages 10-16
  4. Optimal Spatial Patterning of Goods and Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. Distance Inputs and Spatial Markets

      • Martin J. Beckmann
      Pages 19-24
    3. Spatial Price Policies and the Location of the Firm

      • Dominique Peeters, Jacques-François Thisse
      Pages 57-74
    4. Land, Labour and Product Markets under Spatial Monopoly and Spatial Competition

      • Hiroshi Ohta, Yasushi Asami, Janet E. Kohlhase
      Pages 95-111
    5. Spatial Interdependence and Externalities

      • Noboru Sakashita
      Pages 112-125
    6. The Not-for-Profit Domain: Toward a Regional and Location Theory

      • Thomas A. Reiner, Julian Wolpert
      Pages 157-170
  5. Regional and Urban Development: Theoretical Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
    2. Monopsony, Factor Prices, and Community Development

      • Leon N. Moses, Lanny Arvan
      Pages 222-237
    3. Housing Economics: A Synthesis

      • Edwin S. Mills
      Pages 257-274

About this book

The first in a two volume tribute to Walter Isard, the second being "Dynamics and Conflict in Regional structural Change", this book looks at new frontiers in regional science. Together they contains 50 papers by experts in this field, and look at subjects such as location theory.

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

    Manas Chatterji

  • Princeton University, USA

    Robert E. Kuenne

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Frontiers in Regional Science

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Walter Isard, Volume 1

  • Editors: Manas Chatterji, Robert E. Kuenne

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10633-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Manas Chatterji and Robert E. Kuenne 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10633-2Published: 18 June 1990

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 364

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Economic Geography

Buy it now

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eBook USD 74.99
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