Author: edcurmudgeon

WESTERN POSTWAR SUBURBANIZATION A New Urban Hierarchy Western suburbs developed in a different time and place than their eastern predecessors. Carl Abbott makes the case

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