A History of American State and Local Economic Development

Ronald W. Coan

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Abstract: A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems approach while exploring the three eras of economic development.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9781785366352
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 In the beginning was Chapter 1 , pp 3-31

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Ch 2 As the twig is bent: pre-Civil War migration and political culture , pp 32-57

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Ch 3 Early Republic economic development , pp 58-84

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Ch 4 The industrial Big City: primeval soup of Big City economic development , pp 85-116

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Ch 5 Big City economic development , pp 117-151

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Ch 6 Two paths diverge: take one , pp 152-186

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Ch 7 Pre-Depression South , pp 187-220

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Ch 8 Western economic development into the twenties , pp 221-252

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Ch 9 The twenties: not so calm before the storm , pp 253-288

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Ch 10 Big Cities: New Deal, war years , pp 293-320

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Ch 11 Urban renewal: the scarlet letter of economic development , pp 321-352

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Ch 12 The South: New Deal, World War II, and the fifties , pp 353-383

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Ch 13 The West: New Deal, war years, and the fifties , pp 384-417

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Ch 14 Dry rot to decay: Big City change in the “Wonder Bread†years, 1945–1960 , pp 418-452

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Ch 15 Hegemonic Big Cities and the rising Sunbelt , pp 453-488

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Ch 16 The sixties , pp 495-528

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Ch 17 The seventies: the world turned upside down , pp 529-566

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Ch 18 Through the eighties: reversing decline , pp 567-605

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Ch 19 Foundations of contemporary practice and policy emerge , pp 606-646

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Ch 20 As two ships pass in the night: the short story of American economic development , pp 647-690

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