| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Series |
Cities and Planning |
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Cities & planning series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Introduction; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 -- Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 -- The Nation as Economy: Triumph of a Faulty Paradigm; Chapter 3 -- The Economic Region; Chapter 4 -- The Internal Interdependence of Regions; Chapter 5 -- Business Cycles and Local Economies; Chapter 6 -- Economic Federalism and the New Political Economy; Chapter 7 -- The Regional Economic Commons; Chapter 8 -- The Global Commons; Chapter 9 -- Intergovernmental Roles in Economic Policy Making; Chapter 10 -- Policy and Governance for the Regional Economic Commons |
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Chapter 11 -- The United States Common Market: Policy and GovernanceChapter 12 -- Afterword: The Challenge and the Opportunity; Index; About the Authors |
| Summary |
The politics and economics of the United States are wedded in the political economy of the nation state and the nationalist economic policies. This ̀€nationalist paradigm' is, however, showing the following signs of fatigue: the role of the nation state is diminishing as the economy globalizes; US national accounting systems are less effective, technology forces change; trading blocs are emerging; there is less control of exchange rates; regional economies are restructuring; and competitive environments are changing. This book proposes that political jurisdictions are not economies but polities |
| Subject |
Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- United States
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Regional economics.
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Competition, International.
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Competition, International
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Economic history -- Regional disparities
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Intergovernmental fiscal relations
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Regional economics
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001 -- Regional disparities
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ledebur, Larry C
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| ISBN |
9781452249940 |
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1452249946 |
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1483328082 |
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9781483328089 |
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