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Re:Ask HN: Do 'economic drainage basins' exist? by mateo411 on Friday March 18, 2022 @05:40PM (#30727902)
The hydrology term you are looking for is catchment. I suspect an analogous economic "catchment", could be a company town, or a country who's economy is closed to the rest of the world.
Re:Ask HN: Do 'economic drainage basins' exist? by jka on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:52PM (#30728647)
Thanks - I did consider using that term too; perhaps I was led astray by the most recent Advent of Code challenges. They're similar, although I think there's a risk of confusion with regulatory capture -- maybe a justified risk -- but one I'd like to avoid unless proven equivalent.