Is Von Thunen Alive and Well? A Transport-Cost Surface for South Australian Wheat

Autor:	Derek L. Smith, Ron Hill
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	Land Values Agriculture business.industry Paradigm shift Partial equilibrium Geography Planning and Development Economics Normative Rationalisation Microeconomic reform business Popularity Agricultural economics
Zdroj:	Australian Geographical Studies. 32:183-190
ISSN:	1467-8470 0004-9190
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-8470.1994.tb00670.x
Popis:	Economic geography has undergone a number of paradigm shifts since the Von Thunen model was at the peak of its popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. This study examines the cost of moving wheat from farm to ship in South Australia and constructs a transport-cost surface for the season 1991/92. Transport costs still exert a very important influence on farm returns and land values. Governments and other authorities, when making decisions in the name of rationalisation, or microeconomic reform, should examine very carefully the spatial consequences of their actions. In the short-run at least, the farmer's world is very much a normative and partial equilibrium one. At least in respect of a significant Australian agricultural enterprise, normative and partial equilibrium models should not be seen as obsolete.
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