Isard’s vision of integrated modeling that was laid out in the 1960s book Methods of Regional Science provided a road map for the development of more sophisticated analysis of spatial economic systems. Some forty years later, we look back at this vision and trace developments in a sample of...

Various methods were proposed to understand the linkages in an input- output system; however many focused only on the identification of key sectors in the economy. An alternative approach, identifying analytically importance of elements and combinations of elements was proposed as a field of...

This is a User Manual about PyIO, an Input-Output analysis tool using Python. Up to date software is available from the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) homepage. http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/real/