Community Economic Analysis
Author : Ron Hustedde
Publisher : North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
The Community Economic Development Movement
Author : William H. Simon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 082238082X
Book Description
While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and business opportunities in low-income neighborhoods. In this book William H. Simon provides the first comprehensive examination of the evolution of Community Economic Development, complete with an analysis of its operating premises and strategies. He describes the profusion of new institutional forms that have arisen from the movement, amalgamations that cut across conventional distinctions—such as those between private and public—and that encompass the efforts of nonprofits, cooperatives, churches, business corporations, and public agencies. Combining local political mobilization with entrepreneurial initiative and electoral accountability with market competition, this phenomenon has catalyzed new forms of property rights designed to motivate investment and civic participation while curbing the dangers of speculation and middle-class flight. With its examination of many localities and its appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the prevailing approach to Community Economic Development, this book will be a valuable resource for local housing, job, and business development officials; community activists; and students of law, business, and social policy.
Economic Analysis of Property Rights
Author : Yoram Barzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1997-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521597135
Book Description
This is a study of the way individuals organise the use of resources in order to maximise the value of their economic rights over these resources.
Community Economics
Author : Ron Schaffer
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2004-04-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780813816371
Book Description
This Complete revision of Dr. Shaffer's classic Community Economics provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of economic structure in small communities and urban neighborhoods of America. Authors Shaffer, Deller, and Marcouiller review the economics of smaller communities with continued emphasis on how to build and achieve theoretically sound community economic development policy. The text also demonstrates how local participation and knowledge can be used to identify problems, form solutions, and maintain community support for long-term goals. The main body of economic research and literature has neglected the economics of smaller communities. Community Economics: Linking Theory and Practice fills that information void. This text serves as a comprehensive guide on smaller, open economies and urban neighborhoods for economists, regional planners, rural sociologists, and geographers. Additionally, Community Economics is an issue-oriented handbook of development strategies for development practitioners, planning and zoning officials, and others involved in the ay-to-day activities of community economic development.
Community, Culture, and Economic Development
Author : Meredith Ramsay
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780791427491
Book Description
A comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns that have rejected development.
Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Second Edition
Author : Meredith Ramsay
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1438448880
Book Description
Community economic development is conventionally explained using one of two models: a market model that assumes individuals always attempt to maximize their wealth, or a growth model that assumes land use is controlled by real estate developers who invariably pursue outside investment as a way of increasing land values and creating jobs and opportunities. In the first edition of Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Meredith Ramsay's close study of two small towns on Maryland's Lower Shore demonstrated that neither model can explain why these communities, alike in so many ways, responded so differently to economic decline or why archaic hierarchies of race, class, and gender remain deeply embedded and poverty seems nearly intractable. Ramsay showed how the lack of economic progress in Somerset, Maryland's poorest county, can best be explained by factoring history, culture, and social relations into the investigator's research. In this second edition she discusses changes that have taken place in the county since the early 1990s, including the dramatic legal victory of the "Somerset Six" and the Maryland ACLU, which ultimately paved the way for the election of an African American to a top county position for the first time in history.
Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law
Author : Steven Shavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674043499
Book Description
What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute less, market safer products, and obey contracts to avoid suit? And given the effects of laws, which are socially best? Such questions about the influence and desirability of laws have been investigated by legal scholars and economists in a new, rigorous, and systematic manner since the 1970s. Their approach, which is called economic, is widely considered to be intellectually compelling and to have revolutionized thinking about the law. In this book Steven Shavell provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the economic approach to the building blocks of our legal system, namely, property law, tort law, contract law, and criminal law. He also examines the litigation process as well as welfare economics and morality. Aimed at a broad audience, this book requires neither a legal background nor technical economics or mathematics to understand it. Because of its breadth, analytical clarity, and general accessibility, it is likely to serve as a definitive work in the economic analysis of law.
Local Economic Development
Author : John P. Blair
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412964830
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to the economics of local economic development. The approach is people centered and recognizes contributions from other social sciences.
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 4)
Author : Vikram Patel
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1464804281
Book Description
Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing, and underestimated. Despite this burden, these disorders have been systematically neglected, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with pitifully small contributions to scaling up cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies. Systematically compiling the substantial existing knowledge to address this inequity is the central goal of this volume. This evidence-base can help policy makers in resource-constrained settings as they prioritize programs and interventions to address these disorders.
Country Analysis
Author : David M. Currie
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131715889X
Book Description
The ability to connect theoretical macroeconomics to the analysis of the economic and political performance of a given country is an essential skill for global investors. In Country Analysis: Understanding Economic and Political Performance, David M. Currie takes a unique analytical approach to the subject, clearly demonstrating the relationship between theory and application in investing practices. This valuable book shows how to interpret country performance and provides the practising investor with sufficient background on economic principles to be able to understand and interpret country summaries that appear in business periodicals and other media. It covers key topics such as the Washington Consensus and the three major categories of economic decisions - fiscal policy, monetary policy and trade policy. It includes an important chapter on the political aspect of government performance, to give the reader an understanding of economic decisions in their true context. Country Analysis explains the reasoning behind the criteria used in evaluating country risk and economic performance, without the need for a sophisticated understanding of economics or mathematics. Each chapter includes a series of text boxes that include real-life examples from business periodicals to reinforce what is discussed and enable readers to practice identifying and interpreting relevant information. Practitioners making investment decisions in global markets, as well as students in MBA and other courses, will find this immensely practical book a valuable aid to critical decision making.
