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Good Old Economic Geography

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This chapter discusses classical economic modelling in continuous two-dimensional geographical space, focusing some ingenious models due to Harold Hotelling and Martin Beckmann concerning population growth and migration, and spatial market equilibrium, respectively. It also adds some modelling of business cycles, and discusses the issue the shape of market areas. Focus is on transversality and stability of structure.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by the grants MTM2014-52920-P from Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain), and COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”. Finally “este trabajo es resultado del proyecto de investigación 19294/PI/14 financiado por la Fundación Séneca-Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia en el marco del PCTIRM 2011–2014”.

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    Tönu Puu

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  1. Department of Law, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy

    Pasquale Commendatore

  2. Faculty of Economics, UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Mariano Matilla-García

  3. Faculty of Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Luis M. Varela

  4. Department of Applied Mathematics, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

    Jose S. Cánovas

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Puu, T. (2016). Good Old Economic Geography. In: Commendatore, P., Matilla-García, M., Varela, L., Cánovas, J. (eds) Complex Networks and Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 683. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40803-3_13

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