Quantum Spatial Economics (Quantum Economics, Band 7) - Softcover

Zhao, Huilin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798905890512

Verlag: Primal Economics Press, 2026

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Since Duner's 1826 work The Isolated State, which pioneered locational analysis, the field of spatial economics has undergone multiple paradigm shifts—through Weber's industrial location theory, Christaller's central-place theory, Leusch's market networks, Isard's regional science, and Krugman's new economic geography. However, mainstream traditional approaches have consistently treated space as a homogeneous plane or a mere proxy for transport costs: location as coordinates, distance as friction, regions as passive containers, economic agents as rational atoms, and location choice as a deterministic optimal solution calculated within a given landscape. The relational, generative, and historical nature of economic space has consistently eluded such analytical frameworks. This book is the first academic monograph, both domestically and internationally, to systematically expound on quantum spatial economics. It proposes the quantum spatial agent hypothesis: prior to the making of a definitive commitment, an agent's location remains in a superposition of candidate sites; corporate agglomeration is inherently an entanglement—where the state of each agent is inseparable from the collective state of the cluster; and policy interventions and development investments constitute measurements that collapse this field of possibilities into concrete spatial outcomes. Quantum concepts—superposition, entanglement, measurement collapse, and phase transitions—are developed into a formalized, generative axiomatic system from which both regularities and anomalies in spatial economics can be derived; classical location theory is then rigorously preserved as the decoherence limit of this framework. This book comprises six parts and thirty chapters: Part I establishes the philosophical and methodological foundations for a paradigm shift; Part II develops micro-theories concerning quantum locational choice, agglomeration, urban scale distribution, central places and spatial equilibrium, as well as spatial disequilibrium; Part III extends the analysis to meso-level perspectives encompassing cities, regions, urban-rural relations, urban agglomerations, and regional innovation systems; Part IV examines macro-level dimensions including international trade, global value chains, economic geography, technology diffusion, and geo-economics; Part V addresses spatial policy, urban planning, regional development policies, infrastructure, and spatial governance; Part VI applies these frameworks to real estate, transportation, environmental issues, and digital spaces, while offering prospects for the future of the discipline. This work is intended for graduate students, faculty, and researchers in the fields of economic geography, regional and urban economics, and also serves as a valuable reference for practitioners in urban and rural planning, regional policy formulation, and spatial governance.

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Huilin Zhao, Ph.D. in economics, is a faculty member at the Business School of Shantou University and the principal originator and architect of the theoretical system of quantum economics. Long engaged in foundational research in economic theory, he advocates rebuilding the underlying logic of economics through the mathematical structure and mode of thinking of quantum mechanics. Grounded in the core concepts of superposition, observational collapse, entanglement and coherence, and phase emergence, he has systematically constructed a unified analytical framework spanning micro-level choice, market operation, money and finance, public governance, and institutional evolution. His publications include the Quantum Economics series-Quantum Behavioral Economics, Quantum Macroeconomics, Quantum Microeconomics, Quantum Game Theory, Quantum Digital Economics, and Quantum Public Finance-works that combine theoretical originality with real-world explanatory power and form a distinctive academic system and prose style. This book is a general-audience and classroom-oriented work in which the author aims, with lucid and penetrating prose, to guide the reader through a paradigm shift in the economic worldview.

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• Verlag: Primal Economics Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798905890512
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 565
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