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Martin J. Beckmann’s contributions to Regional Science span four decades since he arrived at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. Over this period, his prodigious research output — thirteen books and 210 journal articles and book chapters — range over much of what we consider the scope of Regional Science, namely location theory, transportation economics, network equilibrium, decision theory and organization behaviour, nonlinear dynamics, knowledge networks and organizational evolution. This essay is a brief interpretive retrospective of his seminal contributions to our understanding of the structure and change in the space economy.
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Lakshmanan, T.R. (1993). Martin J. Beckmann: A Retrospective. In: Lakshmanan, T.R., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Structure and Change in the Space Economy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78094-3_1
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