Economic Development Quarterly articles from August 1997

Economic Development Quarterly archives from August 1997

What works best?: values and the evaluation of local economic development policy.
August 1, 1997... This article addresses several issues related to values and the evaluation of local economic development policies. First, it focuses on the issue of goals in relation to the evaluation of local policies: What is one trying...

Response: what works best? Reflections on the role of theory in planning. (development)
August 1, 1997... In this commentary, the author considers how theory helps one understand the development process and how it helps situate the role of planning as an agent of change in society. The problem is not that there is no theory of...

Response: making progress in relating values, goals, and results in the evaluation of local economic development policy.
August 1, 1997... Laura Reese and David Fasenfest highlight important conceptual, technical, and procedural issues regarding the relationship between values, goals, and results in the analysis of local economic development. Less insight is...

Rejoinder: values, valuation, and evaluation: limits of theory on practice. (local development policy evaluation)
August 1, 1997... Can and should local development policy evaluation address a wider set of criteria than heretofore considered? Interestingly, both Knudsen (1997 [this issue]) and Smoke (1997 [this issue]) base their responses to our question on dimensions and...

Comment on Kala Seetharam Sridhar's (1996) "Tax Costs and Employment Benefits of Enterprise Zones." (Economic Development Quarterly, vol. 10, p. 69, 1996)
August 1, 1997... This article is a comment on the evaluation of the Illinois Enterprise Zone program by Kala Seetharam Sridhar published in Economic Development Quarterly in 1996. Sridhar's evaluation method overstates the number of jobs created...

Assessing the employment impacts of the Los Angeles civil unrest of 1992: furthering racial divisions.
August 1, 1997... Using data from a recent survey of over 4,000 households, the authors estimate that nearly 100, 000 jobs were lost because of the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest and that only 26,000 jobs have been created in the rebuilding...

Regulation of leaking underground storage tanks: policy enforcement and unintended consequences.
August 1, 1997... Public and private developers and planners often encounter environmental contamination caused by leaking underground storage tanks (LUSTs) when redeveloping previously used urban lands (brownfields). This article addresses...

Tax progressivity and state economic performance.
August 1, 1997... Principles of fiscal federalism suggest that subnational units of government should rely on benefits-received financing, implying regressivity in state and local taxes. Empirically, however states and their localities vary...

Race, Politics, and Economic Development: Community Perspectives.
August 1, 1997... James Jennings, ed., Race, Politics, and Economic Development: Community Perspectives (London and New York: Verso, 1992). This review essay examines four books representing some of the main positions and proposed solutions regarding African...

Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy.
August 1, 1997... Rebecca Morales and Frank Bonilla, eds., Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy (Newbury Park, CA, London, and New Delhi: Sage, 1993). This review essay examines four books representing some of the main positions and proposed solutions regarding...

Social Justice and Local Development Policy.
August 1, 1997... Robert Mier, with R. P. Giloth, K. J. Moe, L. Alpern, B. Harrison, H. M. Gary, Jr., I. Sherr, T. Vietorisz, and W. Wiewel, Social Justice and Local Development Policy (Newbury Park, CA, London, and New Delhi: Sage, 1993). This review essay...

Prescription for Failure: Race Relations in the Age of Social Science.
August 1, 1997... Byron M. Roth, Prescription for Failure: Race Relations in the Age of Social Science (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction, 1994). This review essay examines four books representing some of the main positions and proposed solutions...