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Makes a critical assessment of the usefulness of enterprise zones, taking into consideration tax incentive programmes, urban labour markets, incentive competition, etc.

This book represents the culmination of the authors joint research on understanding the changing geography of the U.S. auto supplier industry.--[Acknowledgments, xi.].

Using the Longitudinal Research Data constructed by the Census Bureau, focuses on the U.S. manufacturing sector from 1972 to 1988 and develops a statistical portrait of the microeconomic adjustments to the many economic events that affect businesses and workers. Describes in detail the relationship between job creation and destruction and employer characteristics, including the relationship of job creation to employer size, industry, wage level, and...

From the author, an economist, this book is an examination of innovation and success, and where to find them in America. An unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth is under way in America, and it is likely to accelerate in the years to come. America's new economic map shows growing differences, not just between people but especially between communities. In this book, the author provides a fresh perspective on the tectonic shifts...

Recently a growing chorus of complaint has been raised against globalization. It is widely blamed for destroying U.S. jobs and reducing American wages. The authors of this book speak directly to these concerns. They demonstrate with straightforward prose and simple illustrations why the globaphobes are wrong. Globalization has not reduced the availability of jobs. Nor has it reduced the average wage. It has played only a small part in the deteriorating...

Examines traditional theories of monopoly capitalism and world systems analysis and puts forward the concept of global capitalism as a new stage in capitalist development during the past 20 years. Presents case studies which illustrate the impact of global capitalism on the structure of the world system and on three areas of the USA from the 1930s to 1984.

Human impacts on the environment are largely driven by economic forces. If a more ecologically sustainable world is to be achieved, significant changes must be made to the current growth- and consumption-dependent economic system. The "Frontier Issues in Economic Thought" series was designed to assist the growing number of economists and others who are responding to the need for new thinking about economics in the face of environmental and social...