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The Thunen model and kindred recent work labeled "the new economic geography" supplies a plausible paradigm for a coherent rural development policy. The paradigm implies that being rural is being remote, that economies of agglomeration are strong, and that with remoteness comes serious inherent economic problems. In this paper, I sketch the paradigm and explore possibilities for using the paradigm to evaluate policy strategies for rural economic development.
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