Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Economics and Commerce (Volume 3 page 195)
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Year 1 Economics.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Mr A Kan
Pre/Corequisite: 316-102 Introductory Microeconomics.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial class a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- identify broad groups of factors influencing economic decision making in a manufacturing context (for example, the role of transport costs);
- understand space-cost curves and space-revenue curves and other theoretical locational principles, such as agglomeration economies;
- identify the various components of processing costs and their influence on the location of economic activities;
- analyse the von Thunen model of agricultural location;
- understand central place theory as a basis for the partial explanation of the spatial organisation of a region;
- explain urban spatial structure in terms of the bid - rent model.
Content:
A brief introduction to regional and urban economics, consisting of: theories of the location of economic activity and spatial diffusion processes; urban economics; central place theory, urban hierarchies, urbanisation trends in Australia; the internal structure of the city and the impact of technological change on urban development; regional economics; theories of regional economic growth and especially the relationship between growth and the composition of economic activity. Topics illustrated by Australian case studies.
Assessment:
A 2-hour examination (80 per cent) and a 1000-word assignment (20 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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