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REGIONAL ECONOMICS A Reader Other books by Harry W. Richardson Economic Recovery in Britain, I932-39 Building in the British Economy between the Wars (with Derek H. Aldcroft) Regional Economics: Location Theory Urban Structure and Regional Change Elements of Regional Economics The British Economy, I87o-I939 (with Derek H. Aldcroft) REGIONAL ECONOMICS A Reader edited by Harry W. Richardson Director, Centre for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury Palg rave Macmillan ISBN 978-0-333-10974-8 ISBN 978-1-349-15404-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-15404-3 Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Harry W. Richardson 1970 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1970 978-0-333-10970-0 All rights reserved. No part of this pubHeation may he reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. First published I970 by MACMI LLAN AND CO L TD London and Basingstoke Associated companies in New York Toronto Dublin Melbourne Johannesburg and Madras SBN 333 10970 8 (hard cover) 333 10974 0 (paper cover) Library of Congress catalog card no. 7o-137433 Contents Preface Vll Acknowledgements IX List of Abbreviations X Introduction I I. Losch on Location. Stefan Valavanis 32 2. Game Theory, Location Theory and Industrial Agglo- meration. Walter Isard 42 3. Estimation of Differential Employment Multipliers in a Small Regional Economy. Steven J. Weiss and Edwin C. Gooding 55 4. Regional Multipliers A.J. Brown and associates 69 5. The Construction of Interregional Business Cycle Models Joseph Airov 72 6. Towards a Theory of Interregional Fiscal Policy Alan T. Peacock 88 7. Towards the Application of Dynamic Growth Theory to Regions L. M. Hartman and David Seckler 98 8. Regional Income Differences within a Common Market Erling Olsen 107 9. The Costs and Returns of Human Migration Larry A. Sjaastad I 15 10. Development Pole Theory in a Regional Context Niles M. Hansen 134 I I. Interregional Variations in Cyclical Sensitivity to Un employment in the U.K., 1949-1964 C. P. Harris and A. P. Thirlwall 150 12. Long-Range Forecasting with a Regional Input-Output Model William H. Miernyk 167 13. Appropriate Goals for Regional Economic Policy Benjamin Chinitz 180 VI Contents 14. A Regional Payroll Tax J. P. Hutton and K. Hartley 189 IS. A Short Course in Model Design Ira S. Lowry 201 16. Implications of Threshold Theory for Urban and Regional Planning Boleslaw Malisz 220 Suggestions for Further Reading 231 Notes on Contributors 234 Index of Names 239 Index of Subjects 243 Preface This book reprints sixteen mainly recent articles on regional economics. The criteria for selection are explained in the intro duction, where the reader's attention is drawn to related research. I am grateful to the authors for permission to make minor amend ments and to prune the number of notes. I should especially like to thank Professor Joseph Airov for allowing me to make sub stantial modifications to his paper in order to simplify it into a form suitable for undergraduates. I am indebted to Mrs Sally Maxwell for efficient typing. HARRY W. RICHARDSON Acknowledgements Permission to reprint the articles published in this volume is acknowledged from the following sources: I. The American Economic Association. 2. Walter Isard and the Regional Science Association. 3. Steven J. Weiss and Edwin C. Gooding and the Regents of the University of Wisconsin. 4. A. J. Brown and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. 5. Joseph Airov and the Regional Science Research Institute. 6. Alan T. Peacock and Stichting Tijdschrift voor Openbare Financien. 7. L. M. Hartman and David Seckler and the Regional Science Research Institute. 8. Erling Olsen and the Regional Science Association. 9. Larry A. Sjaastad and the University of Chicago Press. 10. Niles M. Hansen and Kyklos-Verlag, Basel. I I. C. P. Harris and A. P. Thirlwall and Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 12. William H. Miernyk and the Western Economic Associa tion. 13. Benjamin Chinitz and the Editor of Urban Studies. 14. J. P. Hutton and K. Hartley and the Clarendon Press, Oxford. 15. Ira S. Lowry, the RAND Corporation and the Journal of the American Institute of Planners 16. Boleslaw Malisz and the Journal of the Town Planning Institute. List of Abbreviations AER American Economic Review EJ Economic Journal Em Econometrica JAIP Journal of the American Institute of Planners JPE Journal of Political Economy JRS Journal of Regional Science OEP Oxford Economic Papers PPRSA Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association QJE Quarterly Journal of Economics REfSS Review of Economics and Statistics SEJ Southern Economic Journal
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