Local economic development in Europe and the Americas
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Local economic development in Europe and the Americas
Mansell, 1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Papers originally presented at a conference held in Lille, France, March 16-18, 1994
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since the 1970s, advanced societies have experienced inflation, rising unemployment and the instability of exchange rates. Macroeconomic policy instruments have shown their limits, while transnational corporations have never been more powerful. Within nation-states, regions and localities are searching for alternative economic growth. This collection of essays analyzes local economic development (LED) strategies in Europe, North America and Latin America in the light of global restructuring. It has three main aims: to present systematically to a wide audience the variety of local economic initiatives, their aims, mechanisms and outcomes; to review the literature of LED; and to develop a comparative approach to LED initiatives, especially between countries and continents. The contributors, who are economists, public policy analysts, geographers and planners, address a number of key questions: What are the respective contributions of public authorities, firms and individuals? What is the logic behind the rise of new industrial spaces and the fall of former loci of accumulation? What do local strategies mean in an age in an age of economic globalization?
What are the concrete results of local development strategies? Is LED only a local matter? and what is the democratic content of LED strategies.
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