(Fellows Address April, 1995) It is now more than forty years since Walter Isard sought to create a new discipline, Regional Science. What concerned him was the Anglo-Saxon bias in economics: that economic systems could be analyzed in a spaceless world, literally on the head of a pin. The...

The purpose of this paper is to present some elements of one or more paradigms for assessing a region's economic growth prospects and related infrastructure requirements. These concerns are central to a regional policy that offers guidance for individual decision makers of local governments and...

In this paper, we describe the modeling of a resource-dependent economy, namely, Southeast Alaska, in monitoring the impact of federal, state and local government taxing and spending activities on the region. An important part of the modeling effort is construction of a readily accessible...

The sensitivity of regional industry to business cycles has been widely documented. Responses of individual businesses and industries in a specific region or state to each phase of the business cycle has been less well analyzed and understood. Lacking in all the documentation, moreover, is...

Agriculture: Essential to Minnesota's Economy