Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217476

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Title:: Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

Place of publication:: Amsterdam [u.a.]

Publisher:: North-Holland Publ. Co. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1965

Scope:: XLVII, 1259 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Spatial organization and regional planning: Some hypotheses for econometric analysis / Walter Isard, Department of regional Science - University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Penn. - U.S.A.

Collection:: Economics Books

1004 PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM SCRIPTA VARIA - 28 bution of industrial production, population, investment, con- sumption and other economic magnitudes? The latter question suggests the need to develop a more adequate general inter- regional theory which encompasses the spatial distributions of both economic activities and political-administrative-planning functions and decision-making authority; and that these spa- tial distributions be simultaneously determined (1). In what follows, I can only make a small beginning at the formidable task which confronts us. I shall suggest hypotheses which relate to: I) the advantage (positive or negative) of increased participa- tion potential with increase in the degree of spatial decen- tralization of decision-making authority (utilizing concepts based upon the gravity model as developed in the field of regional science): 2) the advantage (positive or negative) of increase in the degree of spatial decentralization with respect to: a) cost of collecting information b) cost of processing information c) cost of transmitting information d) time-cost of executives, representatives and officials spent in reaching a decision based upon the processed informa- tion made available; 3) the overview advantage (positive or negative) of increase in the degree of spatial decentralization (where overview advantage is defined in terms of the wisdom-full information- coordination factor in decision making as reflected in the writings of Professor J. MARSCHAK and his associates). (') For further elaboration of these question and for detailed exposition of certain concepts utilized in this paper, the reader is referred to W. IsARD and T. TuNc: Some Concepts for the Analysis of Spatial Organization, « Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association », Part. I, Vol. 11, and Part. II, Vol. 12. Permission to reproduce without change manv of the statements of these two mannscrpts is herehv acknowledged 21 Isard - pag. 2

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