Bøker av Norman Walzer

This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway. Students and policymakers in local economic development, sociology of population change, business finance, political economy, and geography will find this a useful resource.

Examining the main economic trends affecting rural areas today and the types of local programmes that are being implemented in response. The contributors to this text consider the lessening of federal government involvement and its long-term effects on states and localities.

Using data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future.