The Random Spatial Economy and its Evolution - Hardcover

Curry, Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840143916 ISBN 13: 9781840143911

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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Synopsis

Spanning a lifetime's research, this volume provides a 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 much 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 from an overiding 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. In addition, various forms of self-organization of economic spatial patterns are examined.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840143916
• ISBN 13: 9781840143911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 492