Economies of Scale, Transport Costs and Location: Studies in Applied Regional Science Series

by George Norman

Book Overview

The presence of nonconvexities does severe damage to conventional theories of the firm and of the individual. The essential contribution of location theory, however, is in a world in which there are such nonconvexities. If resources are distributed evenly and the usual convexity assumptions made, then economic activity would be distributed evenly; there would be no concentration of pro- duction. Thus the statement that is usually made, that the standard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898380170
• ISBN13: 9780898380170
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"