Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development: An Exploratory Introduction

David F. Batten
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Chapter Chapter 1 in Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development, 1996, pp 1-13 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the Preface to his recent book on economic sense and nonsense in this “Age of Diminished Expectations”, the MIT economist Paul Krugman wrote: “Why is economics such a hard subject? Part of the answer has to do with complexity”.

Keywords: Travel Time; Path Dependence; Route Choice; Public Capital; Traffic Behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-80266-9_1

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