The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States. ByPeter K. Eisinger · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. xvii + 383 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95.

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-187
Author(s):  
Michael H. Best
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Economic Development Policy ◽  
State And Local

Competition and Cooperation in Mediating the Global: The Case of Local Economic Development

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin R. Cox ◽  
Andrew Wood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
Economic Development Policy

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.

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

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-398 ◽  
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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