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

1018 PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM SCRIPTA VARIA - 2§ tions and must be obtained at local nodes; 2) a large fraction of such information is visible to local people; and 3) the visi- bility to non-local people of such information on a local node rapidly falls off with distance from that node? If so, can we conclude that the greater the distance a decision-making point s from a given local node, the greater the volume of informa- tion on that node and its tributary area which must be formally collected and put in explicit form, ceteris paribus? Can we hypothesize that for decisions on a representative concrete issue or set of concrete issues cost component a) is some monotonic- ally increasing function of the degree of spatial centralization as suggested by the curve of Figure 4? (9). Dollars Cost Component yey Jagree ———— . . . ! 0 0 vabal Centrabization Frc Cost component b): When no slack facilities, labor and other resources exist, and when inputs are costed in full at prevailing rents and wage rates, do major scale economies obtain in processing and beneficiating information? For pro- cessing a given volume of information associated with decisions on a concrete issue or set of concrete issues, can we hypothesize that cost component b) is some monotonically decreasing func- (5) In this function, should allowance be made for the likelihood that important information pertaining to any f‘-order node and its tributary area may be more visible to a person at the f*-order node than to a person at an (f+ 1)" or higher order node? Note that the functions underlying the curve of Figure 4 and the curves of subsequent figures are taken to be continuous. In practice, they are likely to involve steps and other discontinuities. The argument. however remains unaffected 12] Isard - pag. 16

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