--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > Two
unrelated questions:
>
> 1) When did the use of "space" illustrated in the
> quote below become
> common? Is it a techie word originally?
>
No, an econodrone word, by way of MBA school. IIRC, Hotelling put together the original "spatial" model of competition by product differentiation (the most simple of which is the "two ice-cream vendors on a beach" formulation beloved of undergraduate political science tutorials on two-party systems). It later got popularised by some mindless bastard or other for inclusion in MBA courses, and was in full flow by actually quite decent chaps like Paul Geroski by the time I went to LBS in 1997.
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