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Wilhelm Launhardt: Location Theorist

In: Regional Competition

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  • Martin Beckmann

    (Brown University)

Abstract

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Wilhelm Launhardt (18321918). Launhardt was a man of many parts: civil engineer, commissioner of roads in the state of Hanover, consultant to the Venlo-Hamburg Railroad Company, rector of the newly founded Hanover Institute of Technology, founder of transportation science, author of the first German text in mathematical economics, monetary economist, and above all location theorist.

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  • Martin Beckmann, 2000. "Wilhelm Launhardt: Location Theorist," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Peter W. J. Batey & Peter Friedrich (ed.), Regional Competition, chapter 6, pages 131-138, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-662-04234-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-04234-2_6
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    1. Krystyna Gawlikowska-Hueckel & Jacek Szlachta, 2016. "The Vulnerability of Polish Regions to the Challenges of the Modern Economy," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 4, pages 23-46.

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