Walter Isard

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Walter Isard (born April 19, 1919 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † November 6, 2010 in Drexel Hill , Pennsylvania) was an American economist .

Live and act

Isard was Professor of Economics and Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University College for Arts & Sciences . He is also known for his restless commitment to peace. Isard founded the Peace Science Society in the early 1960s to put the analysis of international conflicts on a scientific footing and published the Journal of Peace Science .

He also founded the Regional Science Association ( Regional Science Association International since 1990 ) with 4,000 members in 30 countries. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1985 . The Poznan Business Academy (1976), the Erasmus University Rotterdam (1978), the University of Karlsruhe (1979), the University of Umeå (1980), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1982), the Binghamton University (1997) and the University of Geneva (2002) awarded him an honorary doctorate.

In his further development of Alfred Weber's location theory , Isard introduced Andreas Predöhl's substitution principle .

Fonts (selection)

Essays
  • Some concepts for the analysis of spatial organization, Part I . In: Papers in Regional Science , Vol. 11 (1963), pp. 15-40, ISSN  0486-2902
  • On the natural transport rate and some parallels from physics . In: Papers on the Regional Science Association , Vol. 32 (1974), Issue 1, pp. 94-100, ISSN  0486-2902
  • Reflections on the Relevance of Integrated Multi-Region Models. Lessons from Physics . In: Regional Science and Urban Economics , Vol. 16 (1986), Issue 2, pp. 165-180, ISSN  0166-0462 .
Monographs
  • Understanding Conflict and the Science of Peace . Blackwell, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 1-557-86311-3 .
  • Arms Races, Arms Control and Conflict Analysis. Contributions from Peace Science and Peace Economics . CUP, New York 1988, ISBN 0-521-36297-0 .
  • Conflict Analysis and Practical Conflict Management Procedures. An introduction to peace science . Ballinger Books, Cambridge, Mass. 1982, ISBN 0-88410-899-6 .
  • Spatial Dynamics and Optimal Space-Time Development (Studies in regional science and urban economics; Vol. 4). North-Holland, New York 1979, ISBN 0-444-00273-1 .
  • New frontiers in regional science . University Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-8147-1437-4 .
Work edition
  • Christine Smith (Ed.): Selected papers of Walter Isard . Macmillan, Basingstoke 1990, ISBN 0-333-51378-9 (2 vols.)

literature

  • David E. Boyce, Ronald E. Miller: In memoria, Walter Isard . In: Journal of regional science , Vol. 51 (2011), Issue 1, pp. 1–4, ISSN  0022-4146

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Grimes: Walter Isard, Economist Who Studied How Regions Evolve, Dies at 91 . In: The New York Times of November 10, 2010.
  2. ↑ David Boyce: A short history of the field of regional science . In: Papers in Regional Science . tape 83 , 2004, pp. 54 , doi : 10.1007 / s10110-003-0176-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Isard, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2010
Place of death Drexel Hill , Pennsylvania