1. Before Thunen -- Section 1. Space in 18th Century Economic Thought -- Section 2. The Break Between Spatial Analysis and the English Classical School -- 2. Johann-Heinrich Von Thunen -- Genesis of Thunen’s Theories -- Section 1. The Model of Concentric Rings -- Section 2. Thunen and His Time...

The aim of this paper is reconciliating spatial autocorrelation often observed in the world distribution of wealth and its effects on development gap. Neglecting spatial autocorrelation potentially biased our vision on the role of physical capital in development process. We therefore show that...

Recent theoretical and empirical work generally often focus on the interdependence of nations and regions underlying that the economy of one country or region is not independent of the economies of others. However, these models generally ignores the impact of location and neighborhood in...

Most national accounting systems are based on the Make-Use model. Two hypotheses are traditionally made featuring either industry-based (IBT) or commodity-based (CBT) technologies. IBT corresponds to a consistent demand-driven model: its solution can be explained as a circuit or in probabilistic...