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Present a critical account of Alfred Weber’s Theory of Industrial location.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Alfred Weber's Über den Standort der Industrien (1909), translated as The Theory of the Location of Industries (1929), was the first scientific, deductive treatment of manufacturing location and the foundation of variable cost analysis.

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