ECON483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Subsistence Agriculture, Boosterism
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Identify the argument of each author, and discuss how effective it is; ii) offer comments on the research questions, general approach taken and the practical and policy implications of the research. Economic activity across eastern usa: eastern usa developed economically, it had increasing inequalities in distributions of population and manufacturing, willia(cid:373)so(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)verted-u hypothesis is seen as population and manufacturing became more concentrated up until post world war 2. After that it became dispersed throughout the eastern usa: agriculture is different due to more developed transportation over time. It first became dispersed and followed by concentration: this is effective as it used statistical measures to prove its thesis. Medium sized cities: the argument is that city size distributions are stable over time and that medium size cities are highly specialized.
