Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction -- ONE: The Ideology of Nature -- TWO: The Production of Nature -- THREE: The Production of Space -- FOUR: Toward a Theory of Uneven Development I: The Dialectic of Geographical...

The aim of the study is to compare the methodology of spatial model building of two very influential economists, Thünen and Krugman. Thünen is a representative nineteen century economist and Krugman represents the method of contemporary neoclassical mainstream economics. Thünen is mostly...

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