Spatial Nonconvexities Journal Articles

abstract

• Modern economic theory has experienced a persistent shift away from partial equilibrium modelling and towards the theory of general competitive equilibrium. Spatial economic analysis, however, has by and large remained rooted in the older approach. This conservatism may be explained in part by the stringently aspatial manner in which general equilibrium theory is conventionally expressed. This paper attempts to redress this imbalance by considering general equilibrium in an explicitly geographic setting. In this particular context, space manifests itself primarily through transportation costs, and the major concern is to ascertain the pattern of transportation costs which the axioms of general equilibrium theory imply.

authors

• Mullally, H
• Papageorgiou, George John

status

• published 

publication date

• January 1978

has subject area

• 1205 Urban and Regional Planning (FoR)
• 1402 Applied Economics (FoR)
• 1604 Human Geography (FoR)
• Geography (Science Metrix)

published in

• Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space  Journal

keywords

• Environmental Sciences & Ecology
• Environmental Studies
• Geography
• Life Sciences & Biomedicine
• Science & Technology
• Social Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1068/a100037

start page

• 37

end page

• 42

volume

• 10

issue

• 1