A reconsideration of the role of discontinuity in regional economic models
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: A reconsideration of the role of discontinuity in regional economic models
zbMATH Open document ID: 1072.91032
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(02)00669-0
author: J. jun. Barkley Rosser
published in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
publication date: 2004-07-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The idea that spatial economic models are subject to bifurcations associated with critical values of transportation costs has gone through several stages of discussion. In this paper it is stated that discontinuous phenomena are more visible in regional economic systems. It is therefore not surprising that regional scientists were among the most enthusiastic about applying catastrophe theory among social scientists. However, catastrophe theory is not the only way to model discontinuity phenomena as it is just a special case of broader bifurcation theory. A variety of approaches have been used to model such discontinuities as the emergence of cities from homogeneous population distributions and the emergence of core-periphery systems with divergence of income levels at the global level.
reviewed by: Messoud Efendiev
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B72
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37N40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58K50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B62
zbMATH DE Number: 2077304
zbMATH Keywords: transportation costs
zbMATH Keywords: economic system
zbMATH Keywords: catastrophe theory
zbMATH Keywords: population distribution
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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