Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development (Advances in Spatial Science) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540613331 ISBN 13: 9783540613336

Publisher: Springer, 1996

Synopsis

The book examines the complex relationships between infrastructure and the rest of the economy. In particular, it focuses on the contentious issue of whether infrastructure investments stimulate productivity growth, issues of pricing and ownership, and also development problems such as environmental damage. Methods range from traditional production function models and compensating variation approaches to nonlinear methods of dynamic analysis. There is a unique emphasis on the ability of these different methods to allow for the complex interdependencies involved. Six of the fifteen papers deal with these methodological aspects, whereas the remainder addresses specific cases or examples in a variety of countries (Europe, USA and developing countries).

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540613331
• ISBN 13: 9783540613336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Batten David F., Karlsson Charlie