Acknowledgements -- Preface / Jamie Peck -- Introduction / Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward -- Austerity and the spectacle: urban triage and post-political development in Detroit / L Owen Kirkpatrick and Chalem Bolton -- Austerity as the new normal : the fiscal politics of retrenchment in San Jose,...

An illustrious group of economists contribute to this volume honoring Dick Netzer, the public finance economist well-known for his research on state and local taxation, the provision of urban public services, and non-profit organizations. Following in his tradition, the contributors apply...

Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde von Christian Kelders in der Zeit seiner Tätigkeit als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeit des Center for Economic Studies (CES) erstellt und im September 2005 abgeschlossen. Gegenstand der Arbeit sind die Besteuerungsanreize im System der deutschen Kommunalfinanzen....

School finance and urban education reform / Christopher Roellke and Jennifer King Rice -- Can whole-school reform improve the productivity of urban schools? : the evidence on three models / Robert Bifulco -- Whole school reform and school-based budgeting in New Jersey : three years of...