Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

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

Document type:: Monograph

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

SEMAINE D'ÉTUDE SUR LE ROLE DE L’ANALYSE ECONOMETRIOUE ETC. [007 not participate in decisions at any node of higher order than the one at which he is located. Participation Potential may be computed for various spatial patterns of decision-making authority (with reference to a de- fined set of decisions). If we normalize these patterns, so that in each case the total authority is represented by unity, we are in a better position to carry through the calculations (?). In table 1 different degrees of spatial decentralization are indicated by the several rows, row A representing 1009, centralization and row Z representing a very high degree of, if not 100%, decentralization. Here, we do not attempt to measure in absolute terms the degree of spatial decentralization correspond- ing to any allocation among nodes of decision-making authority. Rather, we can state that according to certain readily accepted criteria, some patterns are more spatially decentralized than others. For example, A, B, C, D, E, F, P, Q, S, X and Z is an ordering of patterns corresponding to increasingly higher degrees of spatial decentralization (*). On the other hand, there are no readily accepted criteria by which one can state that of patterns H or G (or patterns S or T), one or the other involves greater decentralization. Row A represents the highest degree of centralization of decision-making authority, all decisions being made at the single first-order node. Zero amount of de- cisions are made at each 2nd-order, 3rd-order and 4th-order node. Row B represents a somewhat less centralized <itua- () This step precludes any effect of the variable, the spatial pattern of decision-making authority, upon the total amount of authority that may exist. (We may implicitly assume that the optimal total amount for any given organization has already been determined, or that the total amount is prescribed beforehand). In a more general statement this effect should be encompassed. (’) The readily accepted criteria are: 1) if there are two patterns dif- ferent with respect to the amount of decision-making authority at two orders of nodes only, then the one having the larger amount of decision-making authority at the higher order node is the more decentralized of the two: 2) if there are two patterns different with respect to three or more orders of nodes, and if there is still another pattern which according to criterion (1) is more decentralized than one of the two patterns but less than the other then the latter is the more decentralized of the two: and so forth el Isard - pag.

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