Urban and Regional Economics or Measurement of Nursing Outcomes 2nd Edition

Urban and Regional Economics

Author: Philip McCann

Urban and Regional Economics is the first textbook to provide an integrated framework for the study of urban and regional economics, emphasizing the importance of spatial and geographical factors. Offering a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the main foundational models, principles, and theories--including Classical, Neo-classical, and Keynesian approaches--the book uses a range of international examples to illustrate the ideas it explains. It is ideal for courses in economics, urban economics, regional economics, economic geography, land management, and urban and regional planning.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Introduction
1	Industrial Location: The Location of the Firm in Theory	6
	Introduction to Classical and Neoclassical Models of Location	6
	The Weber Location-Production Model	7
	The Moses Location-Production Model	19
	Market Area Analysis: Spatial Monopoly Power	27
	Behavioural Theories of Firm Location	35
App. 1.1	The One-Dimension Location Problem	41
App. 1.2	The General Solution to the Weber-Moses Problem	46
App. 1.3	The Logistics-Costs Location-Production Model	48
App. 1.4	The Hotelling Location Game	50
2	The Spatial Distribution of Activities	53
	Industrial Clustering: Returns to Scale and Geography	54
	Agglomeration Economies	55
	Other Descriptions of Industrial Clusters	60
	Clusters, Firm Types, and the Nature of Transactions	63
	Industrial Dispersal	66
	Urban Hierarchies and Central Place Theory	71
	The Empirical Description of the Urban System: The Rank-Size Rule	78
	Measuring Spatial Concentration and Regional Diversification	81
App. 2.1	Spatial Monopoly and Price Discrimination	84
App. 2.2	The Derivation of Reilly's Law	86
App. 2.3	The Krugman-Fujita Model	86
App. 2.4	The Loschian Demand Function	91
3	The Spatial Structure of the Urban Economy	93
	The Von Thunen Model	94
	The Bid-Rent Model for a Firm	100
	The Bid-Rent Model for a Residential Household	107
	Alternative Explanations of the Convex Relationship between Land Prices and Distance	115
	Critiques of Urban Economic Models	120
App. 3.1	The Slope of the Rent Gradient in the Von Thunen model	125
App. 3.2	The Slope of the Bid-Rent Curve	127
App. 3.3	Land Purchase Price-Distance Convexity	131
App. 3.4	Optimum Trip Frequency and Rent-Gradient Convexity	135
4	Regional Specialization, Trade, and Multiplier Analysis	137
	The Economic Base Model	139
	Identifying the Basic and Non-Basic Sectors	143
	Keynesian Regional Multiplier	149
	Comparing the Economic Base and Keynesian Regional Multipliers	154
	Impact Analysis	156
	Regional Input-Output Analysis	158
App. 4.1	The Simple Static and Dynamic Keynesian Multiplier Models	165
App. 4.2	The Relationship between the Alternative Forms and Uses of Location Quotients in the Construction of Regional Input-Output Tables	166
App. 4.3	The General Solution to the Input-Output Model	173
5	Regional and Inter-Regional Labour Market Analysis	175
	Wages and Labour Markets	176
	Regional Labour Market, Wage Flexibility, and Capital Utilization	182
	Regional Labour Market Adjustment	185
	Wages and Inter-Regional Labour Migration	191
	Non-Wage-Related Models of Inter-Regional Migration	202
App. 5.1	The Model of Human Capital	206
6	Regional Growth, Factor Allocation, and Balance of Payments	208
	Neoclassical Regional Growth	209
	Regional Growth Accounting and Production Function Analysis	222
	Keynesian Perspectives on Regional Growth and Balance of Payments	228
App. 6.1	The Cobb-Douglas Production Function and Growth Accounting	240
App. 6.2	Proof of the Relationship between Wage Growth and Labour Productivity Growth in the Cobb-Douglas Framework	241
7	Urban and Regional Economic Policy Analysis	243
	Urban Policy	245
	Regional Policy	257
	Bibliography	269
	Index	277

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Measurement of Nursing Outcomes, 2nd Edition: Volume 1: Measuring Nursing Performance in Practice, Education, and Research

Author: Carolyn Feher Waltz

This is a compendium of over 30 tools for the measurement of professional and educational outcomes in nursing. It is a second edition of the award winning series of books on measuring outcomes in nursing.

The tools and methods are presented with attention to purpose and utility, conceptual basis, development, testing, and reliability and validity assessments. Major topic areas focus on clinical decision making and performance in education and practice, student outcomes, and research. In most cases the complete measurement instrument is included in the book.