Class Forces, Political Institutions, and State Intervention: Subnational Economic Development Policy in the United States, 1971–1990

The broad concern of this paper is the development of modes of cooperation in competitive contexts. The concrete vehicle for examining this is local economic development policy in the United States, in particular the projects of inward investment that have been its primary expression. This foregrounds the character of social organization as necessarily spatial organization: organization in this case for mediating inward investment. The paper shows how the socio-spatial contexts of agents result in problems of social integration and how they influence the particular forms of cooperative structure adopted in order to solve those problems.

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State Economic Development Policy and Practice in the United States: A Survey Article

International Regional Science Review ◽

10.1177/016001769401600104 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 16 (1-2) ◽

pp. 49-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Andrew M. Isserman

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Development ◽

Development Policy ◽

The United States ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Survey Article ◽

Economic Development Policy ◽

State Economic Development

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Meaning and Action in Local Economic Development Strategies: A Comparison of Policies in Britain and the United States

Environment and Planning C Government and Policy ◽

10.1068/c090383 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 383-398 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

P B Meyer

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Development ◽

Urban Development ◽

Development Policy ◽

Local Economic Development ◽

The United States ◽

Development Strategies ◽

The Usa ◽

Economic Development Strategies ◽

Cross National

Examinations and assessments of different countries' local economic development strategies have tended to overlook the very different rationales for such activity in diverse politicoeconomic cultures. Differences in the meanings ascribed to locality, to development, and to different programmatic partnerships—and in the divergent patterns of associated local actions—are studied by examining the metaphors used in the development policy literatures in Britain and the United States. The dominant UK metaphors are found to be control, coordination, and centralization, whereas those for the USA emerge as conflict, competition, and change. Enterprise Zones and Urban Development Corporations in the two countries are then examined for differences in practice, and it is concluded that differences in the societal and political meanings attributed to the two programs underscore the difficulties of cross-national transfer of development approaches.

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American Development Policy: The Case of Internal Improvements

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700059052 ◽

1956 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 449-460 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Carter Goodrich

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Development ◽

Development Policy ◽

American West ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Planning ◽

National Planning ◽

Input And Output ◽

The Subject ◽

Underdeveloped Region

The subject I should like to discuss grows directly out of the theme of the meetings as a whole. They have been concerned with the American West as an Underdeveloped Region, and the title was intended to suggest the analogy between the United States of an earlier period and the so-called underdeveloped nations of the present day. To many it would suggest a contrast in policy. These other nations are now in many cases striving to achieve economic development by national planning and deliberate measures of governmental policy. On the other hand the United States achieved its massive economic development without over-all economic planning, without five-year plans or explicit national targets of input and output, and—it is sometimes believed—without the adoption of policies deliberately intended to promote development.

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