Week of:	topics		Link to text
8/25	Introduction; 3 foundation stones; comparative advantage		Ch 1: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chapterone.htm Kilkenny: comparative advantage
9/3	Business Location: transport costs, orientation		Ch 2: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chaptertwo.htm Kilkenny: establishment location
9/10	Spatial Competition (dispersive forces)		Ch 4: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chapterfour.htm Kilkenny: shipping and shopping goods market areas
9/17	Scale economies & externalities (cohesive forces)		Kilkenny: scale economies Ch 5: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chapterfive.htm
9/24	measures: concentration, dispersion, specialization; LQ, HHI		Kilkenny: classifying places Kilkenny: measuring concentration Ch 9: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chapternine.htm Appendix 8.2
9/29	Spatial Patterns: Central Place Theory, rank-size rule, Gravity		Ch 8: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chaptereight.htm Kilkenny: Rank-Size Rule, Reilly's Law, Huff's contours ; F ’02 Iowa establishment model
10/10	EXAM 1
10/13	Land Use, Rent, Value		Ch 6: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chaptersix.htm Kilkenny: Land Value Ch 7: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chapterseven.htm
10/20	Compensating differentials: wages, rents, amenities; ranking cities		Roback article
10/27	People Location: migration, commuting		Ch 10: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chapterten.htm
11/7	Why regions grow: economic base theory, multipliers, Product Cycle		Ch 11: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chaptereleven.htm Kilkenny: The Product Cycle
11/17	Market failures and public policy		Kilkenny: market failures and public goods Ch 12: http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Giarratani/chaptertwelve.htm
11/19	EXAM II
	Thanksgiving Break
12/1-12	term paper presentations	sample papers: wind energy, city rankings, property values
	1 Harris Todd Duff Phillips	3 Plett Rice Mayer Correa		5 Ball Barr Siems Gilruth
	8 Greening Sen Baumgartner Beck	10 White Moore Lastovica Peer		12 Hanson Cousins Thompson Niblock