TY  - JOUR
AU  - Marcon, E.
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Entropy as a common measure of biodiversity and the spatial structure of economic activity
T2  - Rev. Econ.
JO  - Revue Economique
SP  - 305
EP  - 326
VL  - 70
IS  - 3
PB  - Presses de Sciences Po
KW  - Diversity
KW  - Economic geography
KW  - Spatial concentration
KW  - Specialization
N2  - Measures of spatial concentration and specialization in economics are similar to those of biodiversity and ubiquity of species in ecology. Entropy is the fundamental tool that originated in statistical physics and information theory. The definition of number equivalents or effective numbers, that is the number of types in an ideal, simplified distribution, is introduced along with the partitioning of the joint diversity of a bi-dimensional distribution into absolute and relative concentration or specialization and replication. The whole framework is theoretically robust and allows measuring the spatial structure of a discrete space.
SN  - 00352764 (Issn)
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072617269&doi=10.3917%2freco.703.0305&partnerID=40&md5=99342e761f97b2deb1b86a9d6fa6d480
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/reco.703.0305
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ID  - Marcon2019
ER  -