Over the last 20 years or so, mainstream economists have become more interested in spatial economics and have introduced largely neoclassical economic concepts and tools to explain phenomena that were previously the preserve of economic geographers. One of these concepts is the aggregate...

Over the last 20 years or so, mainstream economists have become more interested in spatial economics and have introduced largely neoclassical economic concepts and tools to explain phenomena that were previously the preserve of economic geographers. One of these concepts is the aggregate...

Scott Carter (2011) reproduces and discusses correspondence between Simon and Solow in 1971, where Simon first outlined his critique that estimations of production functions merely capture an underlying accounting identity. This idea culminated in a paper published by Simon in 1979 in the...</i>