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We have lived for so long under the naive morphological studies of commercial geography and the spaceless structural ideas of economics that it requires a real effort to envisage a genuine geographical study of trade. Written by economists for economists, the theory of trade rarely provides answers to specifically geographical questions: in particular, it has not provided any results concerning spatial arrangement. While criticism is easy (Curry, 1985a) it is much more difficult to provide the right sort of analytical apparatus.
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Curry, L. (1986). Trade as Spatial Interaction, and Central Places. In: Griffith, D.A., Haining, R.P. (eds) Transformations Through Space and Time. NATO ASI Series, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4430-5_3
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