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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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