The national context : the creation of the connected age -- The macroeconomics of change : forces transforming North Carolina's economy -- The microeconomics of change : the remaking of North Carolina's industries -- Impacts on people -- Impacts on places -- Impacts on policies -- North...

"North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest growing states in the last fifty years, and during that time tremendous changes have come to the state's people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change resulted from the information and technology...

At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future. Today we are...