The Economics of Disappearing Distance: In Honour of T.R. Lakshmanan,Gentleman and Scholar FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book focuses on the role of tangible and intangible networks that affect spatial interdependencies in economic and social life. Interaction across geographical networks, in urban regions and between regions. Some of these new networks embed new technologies for communication, economic decisions and governance in such a way that the role of distance may be reduced. For certain types of interaction these changes seem to bring about a globalization of markets as well as social life in general. Hence the question, is distance disappearing? Moreover can we observe new forms of the distance phenomenon? Is distance becoming more important in the exchange of knowledge and ideas?
SYNOPSIS
Andersson (infrastructural economics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Johansson (economics, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden) and Anderson (geography, Boston U., US) present 14 papers looking at the role of networks in the spatial interdependencies of economic and social life. Networks of interactions in the era of mobile communications and information technology seem to be characterized by shrinking distance and the book poses the question of whether new forms of distance will arise or whether distance will disappear in economic modeling. Papers that examine the structure of individual regions, their internal networks, and interaction patters follow multiregional models and analyses. The final set of chapters explores dynamics of economic-demographic evolution and development policies under conditions of economic globalization. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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