August Losch

Abstract

Losch’s work, although later than Palander’s, is still contemporary from two points of view. Historically, Losch’s ideas were made progressively more precise at the same time; and the first publication in 1940 of his main work, “Die raumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft”, constitutes the culmination of these thoughts [112]. Logically, Losch sought in his research the same fundamental objective as Palander, that is, the elaboration of a general equilibrium theory of location in an economic system. But, whereas Palander did not achieve a general theory, Losch made decisive progress toward developing a general model of spatial interdependence.