Laura Reese and David Fasenfest highlight important conceptual, technical, and procedural issues regarding the relationship between values, goals, and results in the analysis of local economic development. Less insight is provided on how to make progress in resolving the difficult problems they...

"Sustainable development" is an emerging approach to development combining aspects of traditional economic development with elements of environmental and social policy. This article examines the experience of Canadianfederal and provincial governments in formulating sustainable development...

Metropolitan areas across the United States are quite differentially positioned to benefit from greater international market integration. The authors hypothesizefzat because cities possess quite diverse industrial mixes, their stakes in national trade regimes and appropriate strategies for...

During the 1990s, the federal government developed a new post-Cold War commercial orientation in some of its technology policies. These initiatives signify a change in direction from the strictly military-led, mission-driven approach of the past. Their shared goal is to assist industry in...

Case studies of the Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center in Philadelphia and the Labor Management Council for Economic Renewal in Michigan are presented to demonstrate how manufacturing modernization organizations (MMOs) facilitate organizational change in small and medium-size firms....

Revitalizing America's inner cities requires an economic strategy to build viable businesses that can provide sorely needed, nearby employment opportunities. Economic development in inner cities will come only from recognizing the potential advantages of an inner-city location and building on...

Once shorn of the fetters of government and meddling community groups, profit-seeking businesses will, according to Michael Porter, capitalize on the competitive advantages of the inner city. Will the ensuing business development dynamic create jobs for the impoverished of the inner city? The...

This article provides a preliminary analysis of the spatial distribution of business incentives across 8 states and 27 cities. A variation on the "hypotheticalfirm " method is used to measure the size of tax and nontax incentives offered by those states and cities. The net present value of...

John Kain hypothesized that housing discrimination, coupled with the suburbanization of low-skill jobs, has contributed to the poor economic status of minority central-city residents by creating a spatial mismatch between where poor central-city residents reside and the location of low-skill...