The Geography of Competition Firms, Prices, and Localization /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Miron, John R. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Θέματα: Economic geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Economic theory.; Industrial organization.; Economic policy.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Economic Policy.; Economic Geography.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm’s geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space? When a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Craft of the Story Teller: Economic reasoning in a geographic setting
• The Firm at Home and Abroad: Monopoly at two places
• Logistics and Programming: Getting the commodity to customers
• The Struggling Masses: Perfect competition at two places
• Arbitrage in the Grand Scheme: Perfect competition at many places
• Ferrying Inputs and Outputs: Factory location in a non-ubiquitous world
• What the Firm does On-site: Insurance, agglomeration, and the organization of the firm
• Staking out the Firm's Market: Price and the geometry of competition
• The Cautious Farmer and the Local Market: Market participation under uncertainty
• Farming for Cash: Market participation and demand
• The City and its Hinterland: A regional economy with substitutability in production
• Local Production and Consumption: Substitutability, saturation, and the regional economy.