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It may seem especially inappropriate for me—an economic historian with interests in past, present, and future Industrial Revolutions—to write about forecasting regional populations in currently industrialized nations. But I have three advantages. First, I share an interest in spatial inequality, an interest which surely should motivate most of the debate about regional modeling. Second, I have been sufficiently distant from the literature on regional econometric models that it cannot be said that I have any personal axe to grind! And third, my point of vision on the problem is so different from most regional modelers that there is the distinct possibility that I might offer a fresh idea or two which may provoke useful debate or even suggest future research directions.
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Williamson, J. (1986). Regional Economic-Demographic Modeling: Progress and Prospects. In: Isserman, A.M. (eds) Population Change and the Economy: Social Science Theories and Models. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4980-5_10
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