By conventional accounts, the Quakers–industrious, lower middle-class, equalitarian, and persecuted for their mystical religious beliefs–fled the oppressive government of a corrupt English society for the
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6..0 Benjamin Franklin: the Charismatic Privatist Fixer-Upper
6..0 Benjamin Franklin: the Charismatic Privatist Fixer-Upper Benjamin Franklin strikes me as a John the Baptist-type figure. Like the Baptist, Franklin paved the way for
Chapter 19: New Strategies for the Nineties: Federal Government Carves Out a Role: People v. Place, New Markets, Economic Gardening, Casino Gambling, New Urbanism
NEW STRATEGIES for the Nineties The reader who has suffered through this history may by this point have realized that through the 1980s, slowly, surreptitiously,
Chapter 19: Change in State and Local Policy System and Political Culture: the Big Sort (Bishop), Immigration, the New (new) South and the Vanishing Sun Belt,Generational Cohort Migrations (Retirement), Boomers and progeny: it depends on what growth is, Western Neighborhoods and Slow Growth
BIG SORT: CHANGE IN POLICY SYSTEMS AND POLITICAL CULTURE Our history lectures sternly that economic developers should take population mobility seriously. No one is arguing
Chapter 19: Not Yet Ready for Prime Time Entrepreneurial State: New Role for American States in ED?, Massachusetts-Case Study (Dukakis, Capital Formation Strategy, Geographic Targeting, Lowell Heritage Park, Siting Public Facilities, Prop 2 1/2 New Governor King, the Economic Developer, Mass Technology Park Corporation, Bay State Skills Corporation, Dukakis Second Administration (Centers for Excellence, Commission on Mature Industries, Assessment: Rise of the States: Fosler and Eisinger
NOT YET READY FOR PRIME TIME ENTREPRENEURIAL STATE Be prepared! The cards reshuffled, the tectonic plates of ED policy-making shifted. Our history is repositioning state
Chapter 19: Deindustrialization: Bluestone and Harrison, Great Reindustrialization Debate, Schumpeter and Deindustrialization,Deindustrialization: A Retrospective View
DEINDUSTRIALIZATION Agglomerations run out of steam, and the industry/sector profit cycle proved very real. How to fix a broken agglomeration, excuse me, cluster (which is
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