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

1032 PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM SCRIPTA VARIA - 28 FRISCH 1 have three suggestions to make. First, we must distinguish between different things we may think of when we subdivide ac- cording to regions or spatial distribution. For instance we may think of regional flows of goods and services, from one region to another, or from one centre to another, inc'uding in this flow of goods and ser- vices also the flow of information leading to such concepts as noise in information channels and the like. Second, we may think of the pyramidation, or the regional distribution of decisional power. Third, we must look a bit closer into the question of what we really mean by a region or a center. I think that when we speak of the first point of view, i. e. the flow of goods and services between regions and centers even including the flow of information, the viewpoint is not fundamentally new. In a sense it does not introduce too much innovation in our way of thinking. But, when it comes to distributing, decisional power, the problem becomes extremely complex. We are facing the difficulty of programming a decisional machinery at the top, and at the same time elaborating rules and regulation for the working of the decisional ma- chinery in the individual regions and centres, which is such that the ntentions of the centre are realized when certain decisions and a certain amount of programming analysis is left to be done in the regions and centres. Mathematically speaking, I have found it next to impossible to attack this problem in a straightforward program- ming way (1) and at the moment I can see no better way out than to build up some kind of simulation or artificially constructed games of decision at various centres. Then, third with regard to the defi- nition — what we mean by a region or a centre. I think it will be a fallacy to concentrate too much on the traditional geographical subdivisions, for instance administrative subdivisions in regions or in states within a union or local! administrations within a state and (') Note added July 1964: in the spring of this year I made an attempt in a University of Pittsburgh memorandum, building on my non complex method for enlving non linear programming problems 121 Isard - pag. 20

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