Geographic Neo-Determinism, Spatial Misallocation and Zipfs Law
This article briefly represents some of the most influential viewpoints in the Western analysis of the spatial pattern of Russian economy in application to Siberia. It stresses the role of the «spatial misallocation» concept in the development of the geographically deterministic approach to regional economics. It evaluates attempts of measuring the degree of «spatial misallocation» with the use of Zipfs regularity.