A History of American State and Local Economic Development : As Two Ships Pass in the Night /: As Two Ships Pass in the Night. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ronald W. Coan.
• Authors: Coan, Ronald W
• Contents: Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; Preface; PART I Classical Era of Economic Development; 1. In the beginning was Chapter 1; 2. As the twig is bent: pre-Civil War migration and political culture; 3. Early Republic economic development; 4. The industrial Big City: primeval soup of Big City economic development; 5. Big City economic development; 6. Two paths diverge: take one; 7. Pre-Depression South; 8. Western economic development into the twenties; 9. The twenties: not so calm before the storm PART II "Red Sky in the Morning, Sailor Take Warning": The Winds of Depression, War, and Victory, 1930-196110. Big Cities: New Deal, war years; 11. Urban renewal: the scarlet letter of economic development; 12. The South: New Deal, World War II, and the fifties; 13. The West: New Deal, war years, and the fifties; 14. Dry rot to decay: Big City change in the "Wonder Bread" years, 1945-1960; 15. Hegemonic Big Cities and the rising Sunbelt; PART III Foundations of Contemporary ED/CD; 16. The sixties; 17. The seventies: the world turned upside down; 18. Through the eighties: reversing decline 19. Foundations of contemporary practice and policy emerge20. As two ships pass in the night: the short story of American economic development; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, Glos Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.973; Economic development -- United States -- History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference; Economic development; United States; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785366369
• Related ISBNs: 178536636X; 1785366351; 9781785366352
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2017).
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