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Thünen, Johann Heinrich von
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Johann Heinrich von Thünen () was a German economist of great originality who contributed highly significant concepts and techniques to economic theory. He was the first to develop an exact definition of marginal productivity in the modern sense (although he did not use the term) and to apply the principle generally in the theory of production and distribution. He was a founder of mathematical economics and of econometrics, combining systematic empirical research with a genius for abstract reasoning and generalization. Most of his economic theory is based upon models of general static equilibrium, often expressed in terms of systems of equations, but he also contributed to the theory of capital formation and economic growth. Other areas in which he pioneered include theories of economic location, rent, and enterprise profit and some of the more practical aspects of agricultural economics. He emphasized far mo
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Von Thünen's Model of Agricultural nation Use
In the early s, nordlig Germany was a rural landscape of commercial farmers who grew agricultural products for their local market. Johann Heinrich von Thünen (), in search of a way to explain and improve the land-use patterns he saw, wandered the fields and villages and pored over economic figures. He wondered, how much profit did landlords make? What were the costs to take certain things to market? What were the profits for the farmers once they reached the market?
In , von Thünen published his landmark economic thesis, The Isolated State.1 This contained an sammanfattning model where he applied economist David Ricardo's ideas about land rent to an agricultural space. This was the first economic geography theory and model and has hugely influenced agricultural, economic, and urban geography and related fields.
The basic idea is that the rural landscape has a specific spatial pattern because it results from compet
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Thünen, Johann Heinrich von (–)
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Thünen was born in Canarienhausen (Oldenburg) on 24 June He died on his estate Tellow (Mecklenburg), near Rostock, on 22 September His paternal ancestors were farmers; despite the ‘von’, they did not belong to the aristocracy.
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