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The Random Spatial Economy and Its Evolution, Hardback Book

The Random Spatial Economy and Its Evolution Hardback

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Spanning a lifetime's research, this volume provides a theoretical approach to the elements, structures and dynamics of the geography of agents, settlements and trade.

Cause and effect are replaced by chance within constraints.

Populations are substituted for unreal representative individuals, variability for uniformity, probabilistic process for unique history.

Ignorance is a major factor in interpersonal and inter-areal commercial relations so much so that the focus is on flows of information and their effects on the efficiency of the economy, or alternatively, on changes in its information content.

Recent work on spatial arrangements in many physical and social sciences is incorporated from an overiding geographical viewpoint.

Key concepts are locational potential, distance friction, mobility, diffusion, spatial pattern and texture, adaptability, efficiency, spatial interaction and dependence.

Analytic methods include autocovariance and transfer functions, areal special densities and entropy.

In addition, various forms of self-organization of economic spatial patterns are examined.

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