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Title The New economic role of American states : strategies in a competitive world economy / edited by R. Scott Fosler (Committee for Economic Development)
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (x, 370 pages)
Contents Overview / R. Scott Fosler -- Massachusetts / Ronald F. Ferguson and Helen F. Ladd -- Michigan / John E. Jackson -- Tennessee / Timothy J. Bartik -- California / Douglas C. Henton and Steven A. Waldhorn -- Arizona / Larry Landry --Indiana / Charles R. Warren -- Ted Kolderie and William A. Blazar -- Conclusion / R. Scott Fosler
Summary The growth of service and high-tech industries in recent years has dramatically altered the geographical distribution of businesses throughout America. Some states have had to attract new businesses to replace declining smokestack industries, while others have experienced the trauma of rapid economic growth. This collection of case studies of California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Tennessee, Arizona, Minnesota, and Indiana analyzes strategies and problems of economic evolution and the role of state institutions in the context of regional, national and world economic change
Analysis Regional economics
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-358) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Industrial policy -- United States -- States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Economic policy
Industrial policy -- U.S. states
Aufsatzsammlung
Industriepolitik
Historia Da America -- Economia (Industria)
Planejamento Economico.
SUBJECT United States -- Economic policy -- 1981-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006369
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Fosler, R. Scott.
Committee for Economic Development.
ISBN 9780198023241
0198023243