The Structure of Specialization and Trade in the Space Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5124512 |
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| Authors | T Puu (Umeå University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1339-1347 |
| Publication date | 1984-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a161339 |
| OpenAlex | W2021426942 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
A spatially extended production and exchange economy is considered. It is first established that specialization and trade arise even in the absence of increasing returns, comparative advantages, or immobile resources. Next, it is demonstrated that all trade in a multicommodity economy is transported along the same trajectories, which are determined by the land-rent gradient. Finally, applying the concept of structural stability to the land-rent gradient field, it is shown that the configuration of central places and their surrounding hinterlands must form a quadratic, not a hexagonal, pattern, where the specialization zones around each central place locally have von Thünen character
Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Hexagonal crystal system · Microeconomics · Pure mathematics · Computer Science · Economic Growth and Productivity · Mathematics · Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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