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The logical foundations of urban economics are consistent

Abstract

The logical foundations of models in urban economics with continua of agents distributed over continuous spaces have recently been questioned. It was argued, among other things, that these models cannot represent properly models with discrete numbers of households, each occupying a parcel of land. In this paper we propose a mapping, based on the continuous model utility and defined over discrete parcels of land, which determines the discrete …

Authors

Papageorgiou YY; Pines D

Journal

Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 37–53

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

2 1990

DOI

10.1016/0022-0531(90)90084-w

ISSN

0022-0531