It's because there are actually two different forces at work here. The merry-go-round effect is caused by centrifugal force, which repels things from the center, while gravity is instead related to centripetal force, which draws things toward the center. ...
INTERMEDIATE PRODUCER SERVICES: CENTRIPETAL OR CENTRIFUGAL FORCE FOR MANUFACTURING LOCATION? This work develops a theoretical model based on the Footloose Entrepreneur Model of New Economic Geography, in which producer services, differentiated and with increasing returns, which act as intermediate inputs for...
Relative 'peace" was achieved under the communist -rule that sup- pressed ethnic and regional separatists through military force. With the end of communism in Yugoslavia, however, came an end to the silence of secessionist movements. With the clarity of hindsight, we can say that it probably ...
Wikipedia provides a great example of the formative power of the web’s centripetal force. The popular online encyclopedia is less the “sum” of human knowledge (a ridiculous idea to begin with) than the black hole of human knowledge. At heart a vast exercise in cut-and-paste paraphrasing ...