Economics of Space and Time: Scientific Papers of Tönu Puu

ISBN-13: 9783642645969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 266 str.

Ake E. Andersson; Martin Beckmann; Karl-Gustaf L. Fgren

Opis

A sample of Professor Tonu Puus contributions to economic theory, ranging from seminal results on investment criteria under imperfect capital markets, via rules for optimal resource extraction when the grade of the ore is heterogeneous, to modern nonlinear dynamics as applied to well-known economic fields such as business cycle analysis and oligopoly theory. Puus thinking on cultural economics and his views on the methodology of economic science shine through every paper in this volume."

Spis treści

Preface; A.E. Andersson, Tönu Puu - Economic Analyst and Cultural Activist; M. Beckmann, Tönu Puu and I - In Collaboration; K.-G. Löfgren, Tönu Puu at the Department of Economics, Umeå University.- Microeconomics: Some Reflexions on the Theories of Choice Between Alternative Investment Opportunities; Complementarity, Substitutivity and Regressivity in the Theory of Production; Some Comments on 'Inferior' (Regressive) Inputs; Free Entry and Efficient Distribution of Inputs in a One-product Industry; On the Profitability of Exhausting Natural Resources.- Spatial Economics: Towards a Theory of Optimal Roads; Catastrophic Structural Change in a Continuous Regional Model; Multiplier-accelerator Models Revisited; Pattern Formation in Spatial Economics; The Chaotic Monopolist.- Philosophy of Science: A Graphical Solution of Second-Order Homogeneous Difference Equations; Some Reflections on the Relation Between Economic Theory and Empirical Reality; On Progress and Perfection in the Arts and Sciences.- Curriculum Vitae.- The Collected Scientific Works of Tönu Puu.

O autorze

Martin Beckmann ist als Anwalt beratend und forensisch im Bereich der Abfallwirtschaft tätig. Er ist Honorarprofessor der Universität Münster und Lehrbeauftragter der Deutschen Anwalt Akademie.