Interlocal commodity flows are considered in terms of vector fields. Efficient transportation then gives rise to a problem in the calculus of variations; the flow functions solving this problem contain price distribution functions as parameters. With net production functions dependent on prices, the model describes the flow and prices in a competitive regional market economy. (Author)
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Martin J. Beckmann (1952) studied this question.
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