Research Policy and Review 35. The Booming Towns Studies: Methodological Issues
评估了繁荣城镇方法在基于经济表现对地方进行排名时的价值，讨论了区域单元选择、指标变量选取及合成指数构建等方法论问题。
In this paper the value of the Booming Towns approach to ranking local areas on the basis of their economic performance is assessed. More specifically, detailed methodological issues, such as the choice of appropriate areal units, the selection of indicator variables, and the manner of combining and ranking indicators to derive synthetic indices are discussed, with reference to possible alternative approaches.