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Does Economic Space Matter?

Essays in Honour of Melvin L. Greenhut

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Hiroshi Ohta

    1. Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Jacques-François Thisse

    1. Université de Paris I-Sorbonne, France
      CERAS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France

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This is a Festschrift to honour Professor Melvin Greenhut who has long toiled on spatial economics. The book accordingly focuses on a single question: in what sense 'economic space' matters in economic theory. Space in economics is an elusive concept, apparently separating and embracing economic agents at the same time. This is why adding it to already overly complicated economic agents at the same time. This is why adding it to already overly complicated economic models may not necessarily help economics to become sufficiently realistic. In this book, leading scholars of international stature try to find ways of introducing space in economic theory which will make it simpler and more realistic, analysing theoretical and historical issues of contemporary relevance, such as land use, congestion and public goods, location theory and spatial competition.

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
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  2. Introduction: In Honour of Melvin L. Greenhut

    1. Introduction: In Honour of Melvin L. Greenhut

      • Hiroshi Ohta, Jacques-François Thisse
      Pages 1-18

  3. Historical Accounts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Cycles in the Development of Spatial Economics

      • Robert B. Ekelund Jr, Robert F. Hébert
      Pages 21-37

    3. Of Shoes and Ships and Shredded Wheat, Of Cabbages and Cars: The Contemporary Relevance of Location Theory

      • George Norman
      Pages 38-68

  4. Land Use and Public Goods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Tragedy of the Commons: Efficiency Rents to the Rescue of Free-Road Inefficiencies and Paradoxes

      • Paul A. Samuelson
      Pages 71-80

    3. On the Economic Impact of Political Boundaries Over a Resource-Diversified Territory

      • Gordon M. Myers, Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou
      Pages 81-94

    4. Tragedy of the Commoners in Economic Space as a Public Good

      • Hiroshi Ohta
      Pages 95-110

    5. Differentiated Public Goods: Privatization and Optimality

      • Nicholas Economides, Susan Rose-Ackerman
      Pages 111-132

    6. Integrating Rent and Demand Revelation in the Evaluation and Financing of Services

      • Nicolaus Tideman
      Pages 133-150

    7. The Spatial Pattern of Office Asking Rents in the Chicago Metropolitan Area

      • Edwin S. Mills
      Pages 151-164

    8. Optimal Utilization of the Central Business District with Economy and Diseconomy of Agglomeration

      • Noboru Sakashita
      Pages 165-184

  5. Location Theory and Spatial Competition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. On Location of Industries Among Trading Countries: Scale Economies as Possible Offset to Comparative Disadvantage

      • William J. Baumol
      Pages 187-206

    3. Measuring the Cost and Benefits of Import Fees

      • Timothy J. Gronberg, Thomas R. Saving
      Pages 207-228

    4. On the Optimum Location of Modern Firms

      • Chao-cheng Mai, Hong Hwang
      Pages 229-247

    5. A Unified Treatment of the Segment and the Circular Market Models

      • Takaaki Takahashi, André de Palma
      Pages 248-273

    6. Spatial Oligopolies with Uniform Delivered Pricing

      • Amoz Kats, Jacques-François Thisse
      Pages 274-302

    7. Basing Point Pricing, Competition and Market Integration

      • Louis Phlips
      Pages 303-315
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshi Ohta

  • Université de Paris I-Sorbonne, France

    Jacques-François Thisse

  • CERAS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France

    Jacques-François Thisse

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