Infrastructure and the Space-Economy, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Essays in Honor of Rolf Funck

This Festschrift is dedicated to ROLF FUNCK on occasion of his 60th birthday on February 7, 1990. It was a wholehearted desire of the authors who all are obliged to ROLF FUNCK in their research work to please and to honour him and to express their deep gratitude. I gladly took the initiative of preparing this Festschrift since I have been closely associated with ROLF FUNCK for many years of his academic life. We first met in 1958 when he was Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) and I was student at the University of Munster. A few years later, when ROLF FUNCK, still very young, moved to the University of Karlsruhe as Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Economic Policy and Research, he offered me the opportunity of working with him and this started a long period of successful scientific collaboration. Nowadays we meet only occasionally at conferences, in committees etc. , but I always recall with pleasure the warm-hearted and stimulating atmosphere he created at his In­ stitute in Karlsruhe. I express my thanks to the authors and to the publisher, the Springer Verlag, for their cooperation as well as to the sponsors who provided the necessary funds for the publication of this Festschrift. For her enthusiasm in compiling and processing the articles on the PC and producing the final draft I am indebted to Mrs. Ilona Lohr.

I. Spatial Economics.- Spatial Patterns of Resource Utilization.- Regional Output and Price Effects of Spatial Price Discrimination.- Transport Flows in Tinbergen-Bos Systems.- Economics of Multi-Habitation.- Operationalizing the Trade Variable in a Funck-type Multi-Region Global Model.- II. Infrastructure, Transportation and Regional Development.- The Importance of Infrastructure in Regional Evolution.- Barriers to Technological Transfer: Infrastructural Difficulties in Nigeria.- Telecommunications Infrastructure and Regional Development.- Health Care Modeling — A Potential Research Area in Regional Science.- Pareto-Efficient Relation Between Infrastructure and Industry.- Estimation Procedures for Transportation Network Equilibrium Models.- Airline Network Structure and Regional Economic Development: US Case Studies.- Employment Impacts of Infrastructure Investments — A Case Study for the Netherlands.- Deregulation and the Problem of Capacity/Price Planning for the Transport and Communication Infrastructure.- III. Regional Economic Structure.- Meso-Economics and Organizational Ecology.- On Concepts of Regional Economic Structure.- How Different Are Regions? An Evolutionary Approach to Regional Inequality.- How not to Lie with Statistics in Regional Analysis.- IV. Regional Policy.- A New Approach in Decision Theory.- The Silver Sheen on the Netherlands — A New Perspective for Regional Policy.- New Jobs in Connection with Technology Centres and Research Parks — A Case Study from Baden-Württemberg-West Germany —.- Poland — the Challenging Laboratory of Space Economy.- Economic Reforms in Centrally Planned Economies and their Consequences for Regional Development.- V. Related Topics.- A Theory Explaining Lösch-Cycles.- August Lösch as a Population Analyst.- Development of Economy and Traffic.- Are Car Purchases Savings? An Analysis of German Households.- List of Authors.