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This book has a rather long-winding history. It is not like anything else the present author ever wrote, as all the rest is theoretical economics in a d- tinctively mathematical dress. For the emergence of the following pages, there are several people, - cept the author, who are to have the credit, or perhaps the blame. Around 1985, the department of economics at Umeå University in the North of S- den was visited by Professor William Hendon, Editor of the Journal of C- tural Economics. In my capacity of chairman of the department I invited him to a social lunch. We soon realized that we did not have much in terms of common research interests to talk about. However, somebody at the - partment later informed him that I also used to make copies of historical musical instruments during my free hours, so, once back in the US, he asked me to write an article for his journal, comparing the making of mathematical models to the making musical instruments. I thought the idea was absolutely crazy, but could not help start thinking about it now and then, so five years later I actually contributed a paper called "On the unity of the arts, crafts, and sciences".

Arts --- Culture --- Science --- Culture. --- Economic aspects. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Social aspects --- Economics. --- Arts. --- Social sciences. --- Architecture. --- Economic theory. --- Economics, general. --- Social Sciences, general. --- Architectural History and Theory. --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Design and construction --- Management science. --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Architecture, Primitive --- Arts, Primitive

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Environmental planning --- Roads --- Finance --- Mathematical models --- Economic aspects --- Roads - Finance - Mathematical models --- Roads - Economic aspects - Mathematical models

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This book deals with the economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. The effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, are emphasized, since both contribute to the failure of normal market solutions. Embodiment of ideas, and the consequences of modern reproduction technology for protection of property rights are closely examined. The evolution within arts and sciences, which often seems to return to previously scrapped ideals, is illustrated by detailed case studies, in which the importance of changing tastes, rather than progress proper, is emphasized. The author attempts an understanding for this using Darwinian evolution in combination with modern mathematical complexity theory, expressed in terms accessible to the general reader. The second edition is extended and updated especially as regards the illustration material. “Professor Puu (…) introduces a fourth approach [to cultural economics]. (…) working it like a triangle, Arts, Sciences and Economics is, in a sense, inductive in nature. An observation made in one of the arts or the natural & engineering sciences (henceforth ‘sciences’) or economics is extended to cover the other two points of the triangle. The temporal plane of this triangle covers the pre-Renaissance to the 21st century with a special and loving emphasis on the Baroque.(...) Professor Puu’s method reminds me of Pascal’s Pensées (…), it also reminds me of Goethe (…) Unlike Goethe, however, the ‘certain order’ achieved by Professor Puu is mathematical rather than intuitive or aesthetic in nature. Underpinning the text is the correlation between Arts, Sciences and Economics through mathematics. And mathematics covers the waterfront from probability to chaos theory (…) This underpinning does, however, reveal Professor Puu as having a very well developed mathematical mind (…). Similarly, his cultural and historical erudition cannot be faulted but rather must be praised. The text is rich in example. (…) This book is not a narrative with a beginning, middle and end. It is Professor Puu’s Pensées. (…) Calculatory rationalism is not the only tool of economics. Arguably, this is one implication of the term ‘knowledge-based economy’. To such an economy, however, Professor Puu has made a most valuable and fascinating contribution.“(...) Harry Hillman Chartrand, Book Review in Journal of Cultural Economics, vol. 31, number 1, 2007.

Economics/Management Science. --- Economics general. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Arts. --- Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Nonlinear Dynamics. --- Economics. --- Science --- Humanities. --- Economie politique --- Sciences --- Arts --- Sciences humaines --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Science_xPhilosophy. --- Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Culture --- Economic aspects. --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Cultural heritage. --- Mathematics. --- Social sciences. --- Statistical physics. --- Management science. --- Culture - Economic aspects. --- Economics, general. --- Cultural Economics. --- Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory. --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Culture—Economic aspects. --- Physics --- Mathematical statistics --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Math --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Statistical methods --- Arts, Primitive

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In his student years the author of this book was fortunate to have Tord Palander, once the leading location theorist of his age, as teacher and later as his thesis adviser. Palander started his economics career in the 30es with taking interest in spatial economics, and ended up with monetary economics in the 50es. The author made the reverse route. So, in the intersection of our professional lives Palander and I both worked with monetary issues, and we never spoke of spatial economics in his remaining lifetime. Despite this the author assimilated Palander's basic philosophy which perspired already through his dissertation (Beitriige zur Standortstheorie ): Good science is there to be easily understood, the difficult and mysterious being under the con­ stant suspicion of being wrong. Also, it was when trying to organize Palander's scientific remains upon his death in 1972 that the author found two small papers by Martin Beckmann from the early 50es. These concise contributions, largely overlooked, which did cast the entire spatial trade equilibrium in terms of two partial differen­ tial equations became the focus of interest of the author for many years. It was, however, at first hard to get ahead with the Beckmann model, just because it was so general. It could subsume most of the models ever devel­ oped in spatial economics, but, due to this very generality, it was difficult to get out any particular information, except in terms of examples.

Space in economics --- Land use --- Mathematical models --- Mathematical models. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Spatial economics --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics - Mathematical models --- Land use - Mathematical models

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