The Rationale for Enterprise Zones

Peter J. Ferrara
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Peter J. Ferrara: White house staff as a senior staff member in thc Office of Policy Development

Cato Journal, 1982, vol. 2, issue 2, 361-371

Abstract: Federal, state and local governments have spent literally hundreds of billions of dollars in the past two decades to solve the nation's urban problems. Yet these problems are now far worse than when these efforts began. It is merely to state the obvious to say that these efforts, taken collectively, have not been successful in achieving their broadest goal of urban revitalization...

Keywords: enterprise zone; urban planning; zoning; free markets; urban revitalization; free markets; economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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