Product Description: Gravity models describe, and hence help predict, spatial flows of commuters, air-travelers, migrants, commodities and even messages. They are one of the oldest and most widely used of all social science models. This book presents an up-to-date, consistent and unified approach to the theory, methods and application of the gravity model - which spans from the axiomatic foundations of such models all the way to practical hints for their use...read more

Product Description: A well-written and exciting historical account of the way in which regional science and the formation of the society associated with the field, Regional Science Association International, developed. It starts with the rise of Hitler, the advent of the Keynesian Revolution, the intense mathematization of economics and relates how an individual's creative thinking effectively combated the strong resistance of conventional social sciences...read more

Product Description: Many economic issues that touch the life of millions of people are more complex than most people thought. From the U.S financial crisis to regional cooperation, from the oil price shock to climate change, policy conflicts abound. The book distills some of these conflicts and argues that understanding the nature and intensity of trade-offs is a key to resolving the conflicts...read more

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Product Description: This work attempts to find some kind of synthesis between the worlds of art, science and religion, and seeks to locate order within the chaos of basic concepts.

Product Description: Walter Isard is the pioneer of the study of those disagreements between cultures and nations that lead to armed conflict. In this book he presents the results of his research to a wide range of readers. He draws together insights from economics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, geography, regional science and cognitive science...read more

Product Description: The subject of peace economics and its ramifications are comprehensively and deeply attacked in this book. First of all the book presents a compact survey of significant contributions already made, and then it provides a broad theoretical background for examining the subject by evaluating four different approaches, those of 1) neoclassical welfare theory, 2) Keynesian and modern versions of macroeconomics, 3) modern growth theory and 4) political choice theory...read more

Product Description: Demonstrating the ways in which work in a broad range of fields can be pulled together in the analysis of conflict, this book provides the reader with a general introduction to the principles of conflict analysis and lays a methodological foundation for the further development of the interdisciplinary field of peace science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The basic objective of this volume is to improve the spatial and regional frameworks of the social science disciplines, particularly of economics, through the development of a more adequate general location theory. These general principles provide some insights for more practical studies of industrial location, market analysis, land use, and city planning...read more

Product Description: Input-output analysis is based on an industry interaction model portraying the interrelation of purchases and sales as a means of predicting the future of an economy. The authors give their readers a detailed description of the practical application of the theoretical input-output concept to the economy of metropolitan Philadelphia...read more