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Economic Development: Overview
*Andre, R. (1994). A national study of economic development organizations at the state level: The key organizations, their industrial constituencies, and their networks. Economic Development Quarterly, 8, 292-301.

*Barkley, D. (2001). Economic Development in South Carolina: An Overview of Recent Trends and Future Prospects. REDRL Research Report 08-2001-01, Clemson University, 2001. Retrieved from: http://cherokee.agecon.clemson.edu/redrl_rpt1.pdf.

*Brophy, P.C. (1993). Emerging approaches to community development. In Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, edited by H.G. Cisneros, pp. 213-230. New York: W.W. Norton.

*DRI-WEFA. (2002). The South Carolina Challenge: Regional Economic Analysis. Prepared for the Palmetto Institute. Retrieved from http://www.palmettoinstitute.org/report.pdf.

*Economic Development Administration. (n.d.). What is economic development? Retrieved from http://www.eda.gov/Research/EcoDev.xml

*Freshwater, D. (2000). Rural America at the Turn of the Century. Rural America, 15(3). Retrieved from http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ruralamerica/sep2000/sep2000c.pdf.

*Gibbs, R. (2000). New South, Old Challenges. Rural America, 15(4), 2-6 Retrieved from http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ruralamerica/ra154/ra154a.pdf.

*Haughton, G. (1999). Community economic development: Challenges of theory, method, and practice. In Community Economic Development, edited by G. Haughton. UK, Stationary Office, Ltd.

*Rubin, H.J. (1988). Shoot anything that flies, claim anything that falls: Conversations with economic development practitioners. Economic Development Quarterly, 2, 236-251.

Summary of Meyer (1991)
Excerpt: Key sentence: ... some form of economic development efforts is required politically, but, as currently defined and pursued, the efforts waste resources and contribute little. This appears to be an introduction to symposium papers. As you might guess fr...
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Why do economic development practioners do the things they do?: Rubin (1988)
Excerpt: This is a "classic"; I've seen it cited everywhere. Rubin has excerpts from interviews with many economic development practitioners (municipal e.d. directors, chamber execs, etc.) He is trying to get at the answer to the question: Why are cities "willi...
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*Sen, A. (1999). The Perspective of Freedom, Chapter 1 in Development as Freedom (pp. 13-34). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

*Teitz, M.B. (1991). Neighborhood economics: Local communities and regional markets. Economic Development Quarterly, 3, 111-122.

*Todaro, M. P. (1985). Ethics, Values and Economic Development. Reprinted in Reflections on Economic Development, by M. P. Tordaro, pp. 473-95. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995.

Barkley, David L. 1996. "Turmoil in Traditional Industry: Prospects for Nonmetropolitan Manufacturing." in Economic Forces Shaping the Rural Heartland. Kansas City, MO: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Isserman, Andrew M. 2000. "Creating New Economic Opportunities: The Competitive Advantages of Rural America in the Next Century." In Beyond Agriculture: New Policies for Rural America, proceedings of a conference hosted by the Center for the Study of Rural America, April 2000. Retrieved from http://www.kansascityfed.org/PUBLICAT/beyond/RC00Isse.pdf

Reamer, Andrew. 2007. Testimony before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. January 23. http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2007/0123regionsandstates_reamer.aspx

Reese, Laura A., and D. Fasenfest 1996. More of the same: A research note on local economic development policies over time. Economic Development Quarterly, 10, 280-289.

Reese and Fasenfest (1996): Local E.D. Policy over Time
Excerpt: Reese and Fasenfest (1996) investigate the following questions: 1) Has the use of economic development incentives increased over time? 2) Are cities becoming more uniform in the techniques they use? 3) Have local government changed to more entrepreneur...
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Stauber, Karl N. 2001. "Why Invest in Rural America - And How? A Critical Public Policy Question for the 21st Century." [Kansas City Fed] Economic Review 2nd Quarter, 2001: 9-29. http://www.kc.frb.org/PUBLICAT/ECONREV/er01q2.htm#rural