Author: edcurmudgeon

Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Jobs attracted people. Western states (1940–45) attracted about 7 million net new residents. The West’s urban population

WAR: THE UNSPOKEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY To think of war as a conscious ED strategy is outrageous and ridiculous—war kills and destroys. But it does

The West: New Deal, war years, and the fifties Whether western growth was driven by a Kondratieff Cycle or Schumpeterian entrepreneurial innovation—or 1000 other forces

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA Schools, Desegregation, Civil Rights Economic development is understandably a highly valued policy area by state/local policy systems in the nation’s poorest

THE SHADOW WAR BEGINS: THE IDB DEBATE In this BAWI and selling of the South context one of the most important disruptions in American economic

THE SELLING OF THE SOUTH While housing, slum clearance and CBD redevelopment dominates Big City ED after 1930, it hardly touches the South. The South