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Johann Heinrich von Thünen

Johann Heinrich von Thünen (24 June 1783 – 22 September 1850), sometimes spelled Thuenen, was a prominent nineteenth-century economist and a native of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, now in northern Germany.[1]

Johann Heinrich von Thünen

(1783-06-24)24 June 1783

Canarienhausen in present-day Wangerland, Friesland

22 September 1850(1850-09-22) (aged 67)

Tellow in present-day Rostock

German

Economic theory

Classical economics

University of Rostock

The city is located centrally within an "Isolated State."

The Isolated State is surrounded by wilderness.

The land is completely flat and has no rivers or mountains.

and climate are consistent.

Soil quality

Farmers in the Isolated State transport their own goods to market via oxcart, across land, directly to the central city. There are no roads.

Farmers behave rationally to maximize profits.

Ricardian rent

Hotelling rent

Alfred Weber

Bid rent theory

H. Schumacher-Zarchlin, ed. (1875). . Wiegant, Hempel & Parey.

Der isolirte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirtschaft und Nationalökonomie

. Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.

"Thünen, Johann Heinrich von" 

. HET, at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

"Johann Heinrich von Thünen"

in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Newspaper clippings about Johann Heinrich von Thünen