"The outcome-based approach assesses the privatization of the provision of a good or a service by reference to the quality or quantity of its provision. Private provision is desirable when private entities make better - more efficient, just, etc.- decisions with respect to the relevant...

1. Classic Spatial Models -- 2. Spatial Cournot Competition -- 3. Models of Spatial Competition: A critical 2012-2018 update -- 4. New Economic Geography: Economic Integration and Spatial imbalances -- 5. Location Games -- 6. Non-Localised Spatial Competition: the "Spokes Model" -- 7. Patent...

"This volume contains thirty-seven contributions from the most significant early developers of monetary economics. Starting with Aristotle, the collection tracks the development of the modern theory of money through the ages by thinkers like Thomas Aquinas, Martin de Azpilcueta, John Locke,...

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the editors -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Reflections on entropy, complexity and spatial dynamics: the rebirth of theory? -- PART A ENTROPY, SPACE AND COMPLEXITY -- 2. Entropy in urban and regional modelling -- 3. Recent applications of entropy...

"This Handbook is a state-of-the-art analysis of proximity relations, offering insights into its history alongside up-to-date scientific advances and emerging questions. Its broad scope - from industrial and innovation approaches through to society issues of living and working at a distance,...

August Lösch (1906-1945) is one of the classics of spatial economic theory. His most important work, “The Spatial Order of the Economy“ (Jena 1940), translated into English in 1954 under the - slightly misleading - title “The Economics of Location“, became internationally recognized as...