The Random Spatial Economy and its Evolution

Leslie Curry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

474 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-38434-7 (ISBN)

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First published in 1998, this volume, spanning a lifetime's research, is a highly innovative first attempt at a consistent theoretical approach to the elements, structures and dynamics of the geography of agents, settlements and trade. Cause and effect are replaced by chance within constraints. Populations are substituted for unreal representative individuals, variability for uniformity, probabilistic process for unique history. Ignorance is a major factor in interpersonal and inter-areal commercial relations so that the focus is on flows of information and their effects on the efficiency of the economy or, alternatively, on changes in its information content. Recent work on spatial arrangements in many physical and social sciences is incorporated but always interpreted from an overriding geographical viewpoint. Key concepts are locational potential, distance friction, mobility, diffusion, spatial pattern and texture, adaptability, efficiency, spatial interaction and dependence. Analytic methods include autocovariance and transfer functions, areal special densities and entropy. Various forms of self-organization of economic spatial patterns are examined.

Leslie Curry

1. Demand in the Spatial Economy. 2. Agents. 3. Occupational Structures. 4. Settlement Structures. 5. Trading Structures. 6. Short Term Dynamics. 7. Long Term Dynamics.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 229 mm
Gewicht	930 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-138-38434-8 / 1138384348
ISBN-13	978-1-138-38434-7 / 9781138384347
Zustand	Neuware