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Chapter 2 deals with theories aimed at explaining hierarchies in systems of centres. Regional economics, in contrast, are mostly concerned with geographical differences in income and employment. Our attention is instead focused on the micro-aspect of spatial economy, where economic action delimits the geographical markets in which commodities and people circulate. The micro-aspect shows the division of the market between producers who become quasi-monopolists within a certain geographical area. Christaller (1966), Lösch (1954) and Tinbergen (1967a) base their models of centres on the specific division of the market into market areas.
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For a survey of these, see Richardson (1973b).
A formalized presentation of Lösch’s equilibrium theory can be found in Isard (1956, p. 45).
All prices are constant and 1. The value is equal to quantity for each commodity.
There is one, and only one, consumption vector for each price vector. This price vector is tangent to the concave transformation surface.
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Gunnarsson, J. (1977). Earlier works on systems of centres. In: Production systems and hierarchies of centres. Studies in applied regional science, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4247-2_2
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