Knowledge and Networks in a Dynamic Economy: Festschrift in Honor of Ake E. Andersson

414 Pages·1998·15.77 MB·English

by  Prof. Dr. Martin J. Beckmann

Knowledge and Networks
in a Dynamic Economy
Festschrift in Honor of Ake E. Andersson
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Knowledge and Networks
in a Dynamic Economy
o
Festschrift in Honor of Ake E. Andersson
With 75 Figures
and 25 Tables
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Prof. Dr. Martin J. Beckmann
Brown University. Economics Department. 64 Waterman Street,
02912 Providence, RI, USA
Prof. Dr. Borje Johannsson
Jonkoping International Business School, Economics Department,
P.O. Box 1026, S-55111 Jonkoping. Sweden
Prof. Dr. Folke Snickars
Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Infrastructure and Planning,
S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Roland Thord
Thord Connector. Liilzengatan 9, S-11520 Stockholm. Sweden
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Preface
This Festschrift has been created to honor Professor Alce E. Andersson -a friend and
deeply admired colleague of us. The book provides a limited sample of the broad
ranging research of Alce E. Andersson. Here some of his friends and colleagues have
contributed to give examples from the emerging research field "Knowledge and
Networks in a Dynamic Economy". This is an area of research to which Alce E.
Andersson has been a great inspiration to us all and in which he himself passionately
has contributed as part of his prodigious output.
The volume has been sponsored by the Stockholm County Council, the Swedish
Post, the Swedish Transport and Communication Research Board and Telia AB.
Temaplan AB has delivered resources beyond the ordinary in finalizing the volume
and in preparing the complete manuscript. Marianne Bopp and Werner A. Muller at
Springer-Verlag have encouraged us in this work and also been of great support
during our long endeavor in preparing this book.
The Editors would like to express their sincere thanks for making this Festschrift
a reality to all the above friends and colleagues of Alce E. Andersson who have
contributed to the volume, as well as to all supportive organizations.
Martin Beckmann
Borje Johansson
Folke Snickars
Roland Thord
Contents
Introduction
Ake E Andersson
- Biosketch and Scientific Contribution 1936-1996 ........... 3
An Outline of the Volume .................•....•......................•.•... 8
Borje Johansson, Folke Snickars and Roland Thord
Regional Science Perspectives for the Future
Commonalities, Regional Science and the Future
-A Septuagenerian Perspective ........................................ 15
Walter Isard
Synergetics and Control in Networks
Decision Making and
Optimization in Regional Planning ................................. 25
Herman Haken
Putting Some Life Into the System ...............•.................. 41
John L. Casti
Simulations in Decision Making
for Socio-technical Systems ........•..............•...........•.......... 59
Christopher L. Barrett, Roland Thord and Christian Reidys
Minimal Complexity and Maximal Decentralization .... 83
Jean-Pierre Aubin
VIII Contents
Dynamics of Economical Networks
An Arrow's Theorem Perspective on Networks ........... 107
Donald G. Saari
Dynamics of International Financial Networks:
Modeling, Stability Analysis, and Computation ........... 119
Anna Nagurney and Stavros Siokos
Price and Nonprice Competition in Oligopoly
With Scaling of Characteristics ..................................... 151
Robert E. Kuenne
A Schloss Laxenburg Model
of Product Cycle Dynamics ............................................ 181
Borje Johansson and Ake E. Andersson
Gradient Dynamics in Webrian Location Theory ........ 221
TonuPuu
Creativity -Learning and Knowledge in Networks
Human Contacts in, Knowledge Society:
An Analytical Perspective .....•......................................... 237
Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Kei Fukuyama
Education, Job Requirements, and Commuting:
An Analysis of Network Flows ....................................... 261
Bjorn Hdrsman and John M. Quigley
Informative Contests and
the Efficient Selection of Agents .................................... 273
Antoine Billot and Tony E. Smith
Contents IX
Scientific Collaboration as Spatial Interaction ............ 287
Martin J. Beckmann and Olle Persson
On Confucius -A Way of Chinese Thinking
on Values and Institutions .............................................. 293
Wei-Bin Zhang
The Infrastructure Arena -
Transportation and Communication Networks
Co-Evolutionary Learning on Networks ....................... 311
David F. Batten
Modeling Adopters' Behaviour in Information
Technology Systems: A Multi-Actor Approach .......•.... 333
Peter Nijkamp and Heli Koski
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Interdependent
Transportation Investment Projects .............................. 357
Folke Snickars
Roadway Incident Analysis with a Dynamic
User-Optimal Route Choice Model ............................... 371
David E. Boyce, Der-Horng Lee and Bruce N. Janson
Transportation in Knowledge Society ........................... 391
T. R. Lakshmanan
List of Contributors ........................................................ 419
I ntrod uction
Introduction
Borje Johansson
Jonkoping International Business School
Folke Snickars
Department of Infrastructure and Planning
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
and
Roland Thord
Temaplan AB and Thord Connector, Stockholm
Ake E Andersson
- Biosketch and Scientific Contribution 1936 -1996
In 1996 Ake Emanuel Andersson could celebrate his golden jubilee, born 60 years
earlier in the town of Solleftea in the middle part of northern Sweden. His residence
in 1996 was Uppsala, while his workplace was dispersed around the globe with a
main office in Stockholm. The location dynamics of Ake started when he left Sollef
tea at the age of 15 and sailed the sea with major stops in New Zealand, Australia and
USA. Back in Sweden for military service and studies in Goteborg, his mobility
sequence includes Vanersborg, Stockholm, Goteborg, Philadelphia, Goteborg,
Laxenburg outside Vienna, Umea and Uppsala.
From the middle of the 1950's Ake E Andersson started his college and university
studies with a focus on philosophy, economic history and economics. In this period
he also had time both to get married and take responsibility as chairman of the student's
union. In 1962 he started a first career as teacher in economics at Goteborg's School
of Business Administration. Two years later he had begun the doctoral studies at the
University of Goteborg. Initially, there was no professor present at the department
and the new professor Roland ArtIe did not arrive until 1966. Under his supervision
and advice a thesis was completed 1967. The contribution was a simulation model of
the economy of the Goteborg region.
Already at this time Ake E Andersson was active in decision-related regional
planning. In 1966-1967 he was working as planning officer of the Alvsborg County
Council, with the office in Viinersborg. In 1967 he moved to Stockholm and was
employed as chief economist at Generalplaneberedningen, the city planning office
of Stockholm. In 1970 he was appointed professor at the Nordic Institute for Urban
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