Bidding for Business: Are Cities and States Selling
Themselves Short? (Washington, DC 1994). Includes
detailed strategies for limiting tax incentives and making
them accountable to the public.
Building Healthy Communities: Resources for Compatible
Development (Washington, DC, 1997) An excellent resource
guide covering a broad range of activity, publications
with short descriptions and organizations to contact.
Improving Your Business Climate: A Guide to Smarter
Public Investments in Economic Development (Washington,
DC, 1996). Redefines "business climate" to include
education and training, physical infrastructure, regulation,
taxation and business modernization and entrepreneurship.
The 1997 Development Report Card for the States.
Provides detailed information on the "business climate"
and quality of life in all 50 states. Includes measures
of economic performance, business vitality, development
capacity, and tax and fiscal system. A good resource for
beginning research on your state’s economy. Available
on CD-ROM.
Rethinking Urban Economic Development (Washington,
DC, 1997) Policies, programs and process for building
and rebuilding urban communities.
Black, Harry, "Achieving Economic Development
Success: Tools that Work," International City Managers
Association. 1991. A good, non-academic overview of economic
development.
Bosworth, Rogers, Broun and Zeidenberg, Using
Regional Economic Analysis in Urban Jobs Strategies.
A book of data and analysis advice for people trying to
figure our regional economies and how to intervene in them.
Available through Center on Wisconsin Strategy (see Think
Tanks).
Center for Compatible Economic Development, "A
Citizens Guide to Achieving a Healthy Community, Economy
and Environment." (Arlington, Virginia, 1996). Phone
703-779-1728.
Center for Compatible Economic Development, "Pathways:
Building a Local Initiative for Compatible Economic Development"
(Arlington, Virginia, 1997). 703-779-1728
Crouch, Mark A., Labor and Local Economic Development
(unpublished paper, Indiana University – Purdue University
at Fort Wayne, December, 1995). See Indiana University under
Indiana Labor Education Program.
Luria, Daniel and Rogers, Joel, A New Urban
Agenda, Boston Review, Feb/March 1997.
National Center for Small Communities/National Association
of Towns and Townships, "Harvesting Hometown Jobs:
The New Small Town Guide to Economic Development."
(1997).
