Originally published in 1973, this book reports experiments in the modelling of freight flows in Great Britain, on the basis of 78 origin-destination zones covering the entire country. Its central purpose is to establish whether gravity model or linear programming approaches provide the most appropriate way of describing the existing spatial distribution of freight volumes and hence of predicting future flows, given possible allocations of population. Linear programming appears to be the msot useful way to approach freight modelling on this scale. The model outputs allow the authors to probe...

Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in-depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and this reissue is useful for all students of methodology.

Utilising the knowledge from a wide selection of expert contributors, this comprehensive volume makes a compelling case for business ethics to become an integrated consideration across the business disciplines, rather than an afterthought in the curriculum.