Publication

The Outlook for the Metropolitan Area

Much of the discourse about regional and local economic development strategies in the United States over the past twenty-five years has looked like a search for general rules. Very few such rules have emerged, in part because—like all policy debates—there have been large inputs of ideology and self-interest, as well as professional inquiry, but in part because the appropriate strategies really are time- and place-specific.

  • Date: February 1997
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  • Publication Type: Articles
  • Publication: Economic Policy Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 3(1), pp. 93-111