The future (near and far) of regional science

Walter Isard ()
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Walter Isard: Cornell University

A chapter in Fifty Years of Regional Science, 2004, pp 387-400 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This Presidential Address, delivered on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Regional Science Association, looks ahead to some possible future developments in the field of regional science. It contains some predictions — both mild and extreme — of new developments. It discusses how the global system will become an interregional-regional system, and it traces the need for advanced interregional analysis capable of dealing with pressing issues of international aid, development, and terrorism. The issues of synthesizing bottom-up and top-down modeling approaches are explored. The paper concludes with some thoughts about the application of concepts of electromagnetism to problems in regional and interregional analysis, calling for the effective fusing of electromagnetic and gravity models.

Keywords: Regional science; econometric models; international development; gravity; electromagnetism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B20 C50 H56 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-07223-3_17

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