A geography of economic behavior;: An introduction

Type

Book

Authors

Michael E Eliot Hurst

ISBN 10

0878720022

ISBN 13

9780878720026

Tags

Economic Geographic, Economic History

Description

The concern in this book is with the real world of the decision maker in economic situations rather than with the normative and optimal world of the economists's model "economically rational man". The book's frame of reference is composed of a wide range of concepts from allied disciplines, not the least of which is the systems approach. This approach is used to focus on the totality of relationships found in the economic landscape. The book thus differs from the two principle streams of economic geography - the descriptive stream and the quantitative stream (From preface). - from Amzon

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