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Assess the contemporary relevance of Weber’s theory of industrial location.

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Weber's 1909 least-cost theory of industrial location — transport cost dominant, labour and agglomeration modifying — is still analytically relevant in a globalised, knowledge economy, but selectively: it speaks powerfully to weight-losing manufacturing and barely to footloose services. The accurate assessment is not 'obsolete' nor 'vindicated', but relevant where its assumptions hold, and increasingly displaced…

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  • Introduction: Relevant, But Only Half of Its Own Logic
  • 1. Relevance of the Least-Transport-Cost Principle
  • 2. Relevance of Labour Cost and the Isodapane Principle
  • 3. Relevance of Agglomeration Economies
  • 4. The Indian Laboratory: Where Weber Is Alive Today
  • 5. A Contemporary Balance Sheet
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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