CROSSING THE NEXT MERIDIAN: THE ECONOMICS OF RURAL-URBAN INTERDEPENDENCE, INSTITUTIONS AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN THE AMERICAN WEST

Bruce A. Weber

No 35785, 1997 Annual Meeting, July 13-16, 1997, Reno\ Sparks, Nevada from Western Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: This paper explores and develops three ideas: (1) that the aridity of western North America and its attendant characteristics have fundamentally shaped the work of western agricultural economists and encouraged some distinctive western contributions to the study of economics; (2) that, in order to understand economic relationships that are critical to rural western economic development, economists need to move beyond the standard equilibrium economic models and explore some emerging models of spatial development and institutional change in which the concept of "increasing returns" plays a key role; (3) that the West provides a fine laboratory for testing these frameworks.

Keywords: Institutional; and; Behavioral; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.35785

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