Morgan D. Thomas & The Washington School of Economic Geography

January 5, 1925 - August 6, 2001

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/faculty/mdt.html)

Morgan Thomas as Chair [Dept of Geography, University of Washington]

Obituary (Regional Science Association)

Morgan Thomas' Graduate (Ph.D.) Students

Deane Richard LYCAN. Defense-Space Research and Development Contraction Expenditures: Analysis and Some Implications of Their Areal Patterns. [1964]

Anne BUTTIMER. Some Contemporary Interpretations and Historical Precedents of Social Geography: With Particular Emphasis on the French Contributions to the Field. [1964]
IGU President, 2001 | Photo

Douglas Knowles FLEMING. Coastal Steel Production in the European Coal and Steel Community 1953 to 1963. [1965] [University of Washington]

Guy Perry Frederick STEED. A Framework for the Study of Manufacturing Geography: With a Consideration of the Nature and Process of Manufacturing Changes in Northern Ireland 1950 to 1964. [1966]

Günter KRUMME. Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of Patterns of Industrial Change and Entrepreneurial Adjustments: The Munich Region. [1966] [ University of Washington]

John Brian PARR. Regional Development and Public Policy: North-West England and the Post War Period. [1967] [University of Glasgow]

William Bjorn BEYERS. Technological Change and the Recent Growth of American Aluminum Reduction Industry. [1967] [University of Washington]

David Williams WILCOXSON, Jr. The Economic Geography of the Contemporary Steel Industry in the American West. [1967]

Neil Robert Michael SEIFRIED. A Study of Changes in Manufacturing in Mid-Western Ontario 1951-1964. [1969] [University of Alberta]

John CAMPBELL. The Relevance of Input-Output Analysis and Digraphg Concepts to Growth Pole Theory. [1969]

James B. CANNON. An Analysis of Manufacturing as an Instrument of Public Policy In Regional Economic Development: Canadian Area Development Agency Program 1963-1968. [1969]

Charles W. MOORE. Growth poles and industrial linkage development paths; a research methodology. [Urban Planning, 1971] [ Natural Resources Canada]

Rodney A. ERICKSON. The "Lead Firm"; Concept and Economic Growth: An Analysis of Boeing Expansion, 1963-1968. [1973]
[Reference to Morgan Thomas | Photo]

Peter HARRISON. The Land Water Interface in an Urban Region: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Nature of Significances of Conflicts Between Coastal Uses. [1973]

Richard LE HERON. Productivity Change and Regional Economic Development: The Role of Best-Practice Firms in the Pacific Northwest Plywood and Veneer Industry, 1960-1972. [1973] [Auckland]

Charles Gilbert SMITH. Spatial Structure of Industrial Linkages and Regional Economic Growth: An Analysis of Linkage Changes Among Pacific Northwest Steel Firms, 1963-1970. [1973]

Kwawu Yao AGBEMENU. The Pattern of Growth in the Manufacturing Industry in Ghana, 1958-1969. [1974]

James William HARRINGTON. Locational Change in the US Semiconductor Industry. [1983]

Barbara Lynn BRUGMAN. A Spatial Perspective on the Process of Technological Innovation in Technology-Intensive Industry. [1983]

Godfrey Emmanuel CHISANGA. The Wood Products Industry of the Lower Columbia Region: Technological Change, Evolution and Its Role in Regional Economic Development. [1983]

Patrick ALDWELL. Technological Rejuvenation and Competitiveness in the Washington State Woodpulp Industry, 1960-1985: A Global Perspective. [1988] [ Lincoln University, Canterbury, NZ, 2001]

Edward Joseph DELANEY. New Firms' Innovative Search In A New-Technology Industry: Evaluation of Biotechnology Firms. [1991]

Jesse Harrison BROWNING. Regional Development, Technological Paradigms and Policies: A Framework for Conceptualizing Socioeconomic Processes. [1995] [GTTLS, UW]

• Conceptualizing the Role of Innovation in Industrial Change and Development, 1988?

• Innovation and Technology Strategy: Competitive New Technology Firms and Industries. In: Giaoutizi, M., P.Nijkamp and D.Storey, eds., Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Regional Development. London: Croom Helm, 1987.

• The Innovation Factor in the Process of Microeconomic Industrial Change: Conceptual Explrations. in: E. Wever and G.A.van der Knaap, eds., New Technology and Regional Development. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1987.

• Schumpeterian Perspectives on Entrepreneurship in Economic Development: A Commentary. Geoforum 18(2), 1987, 173-86.

• Growth and Structural Change: The Role of Technical Innovation, in: A Amin and J. Goddard, eds., Technological Change, Industrial Restructuring and Regional Development. London: Allen & Unwin, 1985.

• Regional Economic Development and the Role of Innovation and Technological Change in: Thwaites,-A.-T., ed.; Oakey,-R.-P., ed. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change. New York: St. Martin's Press (or London: Pinter), 1985, 13-35.

• Structural Change and Selected Dimensions of Technological Change, in: Geographia Polonica 45, 1983, 83-95.

• Industry Perspectives on Growth and Change in the Manufacturing Sector, in: Rees, Hewings, Stafford (1981), pp.41-58.

• Growth and Change and the Innovative Firm, Geoforum 12(1), 1981.

• Explanatory Frameworks for Growth and Change in Multiregional Firms Economic Geography 56(1), Jan. 1980, 1-17.

• Economic Development, Technological Change, and the New International Economic Order, Geoforum 10(2), 1979, 129-40.

• Some Explanatory Concepts in Regional Science, Presidential Address, Regional Science Association, Toronto 1976, in: Papers, Regional Science Association 39, 1977, 7-23.

• Perspectives on Technological Change and the Process of Diffusion in the Manufacturing Sector, (with Le-Heron, Richard B.) Economic-Geography; 51(3), July 1975, pages 231-51.

• Economic Development and Selected Organizational and Spatial Perspectives of Technological Change Economie-Appliquee; 28(2-3), 1975, 379-400.

• Growth Pole Theory, Technological Change and and Regional Economic Growth, Papers, Regional Science Association, vol.34, 1975, 3-25.

• Structural Change and Regional Industrial Development, in: Spatial Aspects of the Development Process, Helleiner and Stoehr, eds., Toronto: Allister (for IGU Congress), 1974, pp.40-1.

• The Regional Problem, Structural Change and Growth Pole Theory, in: Growth Poles and Growth Centers in Regional Planning. A.R. Kuklinski, ed., The Hague: Mouton, 1972, 69-102.

• Growth Pole Theory: An Examination of Some of Its Basic Concepts, in: Niles M. Hansen, ed., Growth Centers in Regional Economic Development. New York: Free Press, 1972, pp.50-81.

• Regional Economic Growth: Some Conceptual Aspects Land-Economics; 45(1), Feb. 1969, pages 43-51.

• Sequential Changes in Economic Activity Patterns: Some Comments, Annals (AAG), 54(3), 1964, 438-9.

• Resources and Regional Development: Some Comments, Papers, Regional Science Association, 13, 1964, 201-5.

• The Export Base and Development Stages Theories of Regional Economic Growth: An Appraisal. Land Economics 40 (1964), 421-32.

• Regional Economic Growth and Industrial Development, Papers, Regional Science Association 10 1963, 61-75. [1962 Zuerich Conference]

• Some Comments on the Development and Contemporary Uses of the Regional Method in the United States, Przeglad Geograficzny 33(2), 1961. (in Polish)

• Imports, Industrialization, and the Economic Growth of Lesser Developed Countries, Professional Geographer 13(5), 1961, 13-16.

• Programming, Industrial Interdependence and Economic Development, University of Washington Business Review, October 1960, 48-57.

• Economic Activites in Small Areas, Land Economics 36(2), 1960, 164-71.

• Estimates of Water Uses in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District for 1975, Annals (Association of American Geographers), 50(1), March 1060, 22-41.

• A Regional Model for Projecting Industrial Water Consumption, Papers, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, XLIII (1958), 251-8.

• The Economic Base and a Region's Economy, Journal of the American Institute of Planners. 23(2), 1957, 86-92.

• Manufacturing Industry in Belfast, Northern Island, Annals (Association of American Geographers), 46 (June 1956), 175-96.

• Economic Geography and the Manufacturing Industry of Northern Ireland, Economic Geography, 32(1), 1956, 75-86.

Morgan D. Thomas on the Internet:

• Retirement Announcement by the AAG [April Newsletter 1997 - disconnected] Morgan Thomas Retires.
  The retirement of Professor Morgan D. Thomas from the University of Washington was commemorated on 3 March 1997 in Seattle. Professor Thomas retired at the end of 1996. He served as Professor of Geography and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the university.

• 1961 President of Western Regional Science Association

• European Regional Science Association Conference, Rome, August 1997 || Technological Change in Urban and Regional Economic Development [disconnected]. Morgan D. Thomas, Jesse H. Browning, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Forty years of innovative technologies in economic development regions in North America, Western Europe and Japan (GA-17)

  During the last 40 years, Industrial Countries have been significantly interested in the growth and quality of technical innovations and technologies. In this paper, important foundations for the discussions of these ideas are the generally accepted perceptions that: 1. innovations provide the cutting edges for advancing technologies; and 2. advancing technologies are a major permissive source of economics growth and change..."

• The Washington School of Economic Geography "The behavioural industrial theoretical approach was first applied in a substantive research context, true to the advocacy of behavioural theorists in economics, in studies produced as part of and subsequent to Thomas's 'Growth pole and regional development' project at the University of Washington in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This involved a series of papers which applied behavioural theory mainly to the analysis of large firms in oligopolistic production structures and provided a solid foundation, in terms of conceptual application and empirical work, for a behavioural theory of industrial geography....

  Simon (1959) had commented that the first applications of behavioural theory would be to those topics where the assumptions of static equilibrium were least tenable. The work stemming from the Washington School seems to have followed this closely in dealing with the problem areas of innovation, technological change and economic development, all of which require a dynamic framework for analysis....

  The aim of the following section is to introduce aspects of the 'geography of enterprise' included by and stemming from the Washington School..."
  (Martyn Carr, "A Contribution to the Review and Critique of Behavioural Industrial Location Theory," Progress in human Geography 7(3), 1983, pp. 386-401; here: p.389)