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This article presents abstracts of several papers about economics published in a 1962 issue of the Journal of Regional Science. In the article Programming Models of Interdependence Among Agricultural Sectors and Spatial Allocation of Crop Production, Earl O. Heady and Alvin C. Egbert used linear programming models to estimate the efficient allocation of crop production among 104 producing regions of the U.S. The paper An Efficient Algorithm for the Numerical Solution of the Generalized Weber Problem in Spatial Economics presented an iterative algorithm, suitable for desk calculator or for computer, which yields a numerical solution to the Weber problem for any number of points.

Both the comments by F. Trenery Dolbear and by Talbot Page and John Ferejohn in June,1974, issue of the "Review," reemphasize an important point concerning the achievement of a Pareto optimum via constant per unit taxes. In the author's original paper he intends to bring out two points: to set down a set of sufficient conditions under which the constant per unit taxes or subsidies envisioned in traditional discussions of Pigouvian schemes would correspond to a Pareto optimal outcome for an economy; and to formally introduce "externality technologies" into a model framework. As with any results developed on sufficient conditions, the assumptions about convexity are stronger than necessary to obtain the theoretical results that that the author stated, but they are not irrelevant if one actually contemplates calculation. All algorithms which might be employed in solving a particular applied problem seek a solution by various myopic gropings which are assured of finding a globally optimal solution only under rather stringent convexity conditions.