The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 39 No. 2 1957
The Impact of the Aluminum Industry on the Pacific Northwest: A Regional Input-Output Analysis
Abstract
CONSIDERATION of many of the problems concerning regional development has been conspicuously absent from modern economic writing; only recently have theoretical foundations for empirical analysis been formulated adequately. The purpose of this paper is to apply the new techniques of input-output analysis to a concrete problem of economic change. The entrance of the aluminum industry into the Pacific Northwest I during World War IT provides an excellent framework for such a study, as will be made clear in section III below. It is hoped that this analysis will be useful not only in determining the importance of aluminum in the Northwest economy but also in illustrating the methodology of the input-output technique and pointing out some qualifications.2 In section I brief attention will be given to the present locational pattern of the aluminum industry in the United States, with particular emphasis on the application of modified Weberian analysis.3 After a brief inspection of the Pacific Northwest in section II, the theory, application, and qualifications of regional input-output analysis will be presented in section III. Results and comparisons, as they apply to the Pacific Northwest, will be treated in section IV.
- DOI
- 10.2307/1928537
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 200
- Sources
- openalex crossref