Thünen, Johann Heinrich von

Thünen, Johann Heinrich von
born June 24, 1783, Jever, Oldenburg
died Sept. 22, 1850, Tellow, Mecklenburg

German economist and agriculturalist.

After carrying out research on his own estate into the relationship between the costs of commodity transportation and the location of production, he set forth his theories in The Isolated State (1826). He used an imaginary city, isolated in the middle of a fertile plain, to create a model of concentric zones of agricultural production. Heavy products and perishables would be produced close to the town, lighter and durable goods on the periphery; returns on the land would diminish as transport costs to the city increased. Thünen's model influenced many later writers on the subject.

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▪ German agriculturalist
born June 24, 1783, Jever, Oldenburg, Germany
died September 22, 1850, Tellow, Mecklenburg
 German agriculturalist best known for his work on the relationship between the costs of commodity transportation and the location (location theory) of production.

      In 1810 Thünen began gathering data for the book for which he is remembered, Der isolierte Staat (1826; “The Isolated State”). In it he imagined an isolated city, set in the middle of a level and uniformly fertile plain without navigable waterways and bounded by a wilderness. He used this model to demonstrate methods of maximizing agricultural production in concentric zones. Heavy products and perishables would be produced close to the town, while lighter and more durable goods could be manufactured on the periphery. Because it would cost more to transport goods to areas distant from the city centre, the returns to the outlying areas land would diminish until, at a certain distance, land rent would become zero. Moreover, methods of cultivation would vary—with land cultivated more intensively near the city, because the more valuable land near the city would demand a high rate of return. Subsequent writers have often built upon the model that Thünen devised.

      Thünen also was possibly the first economist to point out that the draft makes the military's cost of manpower artificially low and thereby encourages a government to sacrifice the lives of its own citizens.

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