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The presence of nonconvexities docs severe damage to conventional economic theories of the firm and of the individual. The essential contribution of location theory, however, is in a world in which there are nonconvexities. We have already indicated that if resources are uniformly distributed, and if the usual convexity assumptions are made, then all economic activity would be distributed evenly; there would be no concentration of production. Thus the statement which is usually made, that the standard results carry over to a world in which there is spatial choice, is too weak and fails to capture the essence of location theory.
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Norman, G. (1979). Conclusions. In: Economies of Scale, Transport Costs and Location. Studies in Applied Regional Science, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9251-1_9
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