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Local Economic Development Analysis, Practices, and Globalization

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

03.07.2008

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O'Reilly

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328

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540 g

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Englisch

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978-1-4129-6483-8

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

03.07.2008

Verlag

O'Reilly

Seitenzahl

328

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/2,2 cm

Gewicht

540 g

Auflage

2. überarbeitete Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4129-6483-8

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  • Chapter 1. Local Economic Development in a Global Market
    How Economists View the World
    Models and Assumptions
    Individual Behavior and Utility Maximization
    Ideological Perspectives on Market Operations
    How Markets Work
    Supply and Demand
    Supply, Demand, and Efficiency
    Markets Are Not Always Efficient
    The Role of Profits
    Economic Development Defined
    Careers in LED
    The Nature of Regions
    Types of Regions
    Local, National, and Global Economic Development
    Chapter 2. Business Location, Expansion, and Retention
    Locational Factors
    Inertia
    Transportation Cost Minimizing Models
    Production Costs
    National Political Climate and Stability
    Opportunity Creation
    The Decision Making Process
    Motivations
    Practical Limitations on the Choice Process
    Steps in the Corporate Site Selection Process
    Changing Relative Importance of Locational Factors
    Surveys of Location Factors
    Survey Findings Past to Present
    Conducting Business Retention and Expansion Programs
    3. Markets, Urban Systems, and Local Development
    Demand and Market Areas
    Demand in a Spatial Setting
    Competition for Markets
    Threshold Demand and Range
    Determinants of Market Size
    The Urban Hierarchy and Urban System
    Central Places
    Goods and Services According to Urban Rank
    Changing Urban Patterns
    An Evaluation of the Central-Place Approach
    Considerations Extraneous to Central-Place Theory
    Transportation Costs
    Market Overlap, Rate Absorption, and Price Discrimination
    Product Differentiation
    Agglomeration Economies
    Institutional Factors
    Non-employment Residential Locations and Commuting
    Empirical Evidence
    Globalization and Urban (City) Systems
    How to Measure Areas of Influence
    Survey Techniques
    Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation
    Probabilistic Models
    Retail Spending
    An Example
    Hinterland Expansion Strategies
    4. Economic Interdependence and Local Structure
    Agglomeration Economies
    Internal Agglomeration Economies
    Direct Sales Purchases Linkages
    Localization Economies
    Urbanization Economies
    Recap
    Cluster Analysis
    Measures of Economic Structure
    North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS)
    Location Quotients
    Estimating Export Employment with Location Quotients
    Surveys to Determine Export Activities
    Coefficients of Specialization
    Occupational Structure
    Other Aspects of Regional Structure
    5. Regional Growth and Development
    Stages of Growth
    Industrial Filtering (Life Cycle Model)
    Adding New Work to Old
    How Do Cities Move from One State to the Next?
    Circular Flow Diagram
    Elements of the Circular Flow Model
    Equilibrium and Change
    The Multiplier
    The Export Base Theory of Growth
    The Formal Income Model
    How to Operationalize the Export Base Approach
    Impact Studies and Export Base Forecasts
    Critique of the Export-Base Approach
    Primacy of Exports
    Import Substitution
    Productivity
    Exports Not Always Exogenous
    Small versus Large Regions
    Feedbacks among Regions
    Non-basic Activities May Not Increase
    Long-Run Instability of the Multiplier
    Excessive Aggregation
    Supply-Side Approaches
    Intermediate Inputs
    Entrepreneurship
    Capital
    Land (Environmental Resources)
    Labor
    Supply and Demand Side Approaches: A Synthesis
    6. Additional Tools for Regional Analysis
    Shift and Share Analysis
    An Application
    Critique
    Econometric and Simulation Models
    Econometric Models
    Caveats
    Importance-Strength Analysis
    Input-Output: Analysis
    The Transactions Table
    The Table of Direct Coefficients
    The Table of Direct and Indirect Coefficients
    Input-Output Applications
    7. Institutionalist Perspectives on Local Development
    External Benefits from Economic Development
    Job and Income Creation
    Fiscal Improvement
    Physical Improvements
    Who Benefits From Growth?
    Characteristics of Resource Supply
    Opponents of Growth
    Subsidies, Competition and Economic Development
    Is Local Economic Development a Zero Sum Game?
    Inefficiency and Oversubsidization
    Discretionary versus Entitlement Subsidies
    Cost Minimization versus Human Capital Strategies
    Social Capital and Economic Development
    Generic Economic Problems and Social Capital
    Ambiguous Reception of Social Capital
    Social Capital and Local Development Strategies
    Using Social Capital to Mitigate Economic Development Conflicts
    Social Network Analysis: Getting the Right People to the Table
    Targeting Development Efforts
    Cluster-Based Economic Development
    8. Local Economic Development in a Flattening World
    Models of Trade and Resource Flows
    Comparative Advantage
    Resource Mobility
    Economics of Migration
    Retiree-Migrant Development Strategy
    Mobility of Capital
    Innovations and Ideas
    Spatial Diffusion
    Implications for Regional Development
    Mobility and Development Policy
    Jobs-to-People versus People-to-Jobs
    Immigration and Urban Development
    9. Land Use
    What Gives Land Value?
    Land Rents and Value
    The Nature of Rent, Productivity and Access
    Highest and Best Use
    The Land Development Process
    Developer Goals
    The Market Study
    Environmental Impact Statements
    Profit Feasibility
    The Development Decision
    Implications of Financial Analysis for LED
    Land-Use Patterns
    The Monocentric City Model
    The Desity Gradient
    Roads and Axial Development
    Agglomeration and the Multiple-Nuclear City
    Speculation
    Changing Land Use Patterns
    Evaluating Metropolitan Spread (Urban Sprawl)
    Land Use and Economic Development Tools
    Zoning and Its Critics
    Flexibility and Land Use Regulations
    The Eminent Domain Controversy
    Rights to Land and Economic Development
    10. Housing and Neighborhood Development
    Fundamentals of Housing Economics
    Hedonic Pricing
    Uncertainty, Market Imperfections, and Competition
    Residential Location and Neighborhood Change
    The Filtering-Down Theory
    The Trade-Off Model
    The Cultural Agglomeration Model
    The Tiebout Model
    The Aggregate Economic Fallout Model
    Initiating and Perpetuating the Change Process
    Housing Policy Issues
    Rent Control versus Market Forces
    Income Support versus Housing Assistance
    Supply versus Demand Side Assistance
    Ghetto Dispersal versus Ghetto Improvement
    Dwelling-Unit versus Neighborhood Development
    Linkage Between Local Housing and Global Financial Markets
    Retail and Commercial Neighborhoods
    The Social Economy of Neighborhoods
    Community Development Corporations
    Cooperatives
    Community Gardens
    11. Poverty and Lagging Regions
    The Nature of Poverty
    Conceptual Approaches
    Demographics of Poverty
    Spatial Concentrations of Urban Poverty
    Regional Linkages: The Spread and Backwash Effects
    Empirical Studies of Spatial Linkages
    Spatial Linkages and Theories of Spatial Poverty
    Policy Issues
    Strengthening Linkages
    Improving Productivity
    Addressing Wage Rigidities
    Employment Guarantee Schemes in India
    Income Support
    12. Local Governance, Finance, and Regional Integration
    Spatial Perspectives on Government Functions
    Distribution and the Race to the Bottom
    Local Allocation
    Public Transportation - An Example
    Size and Scope of Local Governments
    Economies and Diseconomies of Scale
    Decision-Making Costs
    Improving Government Efficiency
    Using Prices and Fees
    Local Taxation and Economic Development
    Accountability
    Intergovernmental Competition
    Intergovernmental Grants and Coordination
    Rearranging Functions
    Privatization
    Market Based Reforms in Education
    Fiscal Impact and Benefit-Cost Studies
    Fiscal Impact Studies
    Benefit-Cost Analysis
    13. Local Economic Development Planning
    The Future and Local Development
    Concern with Values and Attitudes
    Technological Change
    Systems Orientation
    Importance of Timing
    Planning Perspectives on Development Policy
    The Planning Process
    Limits of Planning
    Planning and Future Studies Tools
    Delphi Forecasting
    Games
    Scenarios
    Environmental Scanning
    About the Author