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SECULAR SEASONS: LONG‐RUN TRENDS IN SPATIAL‐TEMPORAL SOCIOECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
Amos Orley M.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1995.tb00636.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , arousal , economics , economic geography , psychology , development economics , geography , sociology , social psychology , demography , population
This paper proposes an explanation of unbalanced regional growth and regional inequalities based on the view that human behaviour is motivated either to reduce the physiological state of arousal or to increase it. While arousal reduction is the basis of conventional economic analysis arousal augmentation is seldom considered. This paper argues that arousal augmentation motivates society to seek technological and socioeconomic innovations that trigger economic progress. The mechanism for this progress is seen as a synthesis of spatial growth poles and temporal long waves.