Regional Exports and Growth

Central Place Multiplier

Economic Base Multiplier

• Basic sector
• Non-Basic Sector
• Using Location Quotients to Determine Basic/Non-Basic Sector Employment

E = B + N

E=B +kE

 Economic Base Theory

Assignment for Next Time

Read pp. 357-365 Come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts: residential location decision, filtering model of housing, demand factors, supply factors, population density gradient, concentric ring model, sector and multiple-nuclei models.