Recent research has been increasingly showing that it is not the houses or the neighbourhoods in which people live that make them sick or poor: rather it is their personal characteristics. Still this does not mean that interventions aimed at occupants of social housing may not be effective in...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Paul A. Samuelson (1983), 'Thünen at Two Hundred', Journal of Economic Literature, XXI (4), December, 1468-88 -- Colin Clark (1967), 'Von Thünen's Isolated State', Oxford Economic Papers, New Series, 19 (3), November, 370-77 -- William Alonso (1960),...

Introductory economics tells us there are three factors of production: land, labour and capital. Unless a student of agricultural economics, land as a factor of production will never be mentioned again. Yet space for some industries is a significant input and that would seem to be true of...