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...

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...

The aim of this paper is to consider the geographical dimension of data in the estimation of the convergence of European regions and to emphasize geographic spillovers in regional economic growth phenomena. In a sample of 138 European regions over the 1980-1995 period, we show that the...

De nombreuses institutions locales utilisent, dans de véritables opérations de marketing territorial, une analogie entre centre géographique et centre géométrique du cercle pour valoriser leur localisation. Il s'agit là d'une conception particulière et étroite d'une idée plus riche et...