Foreword / Edward G. Rendell and Kenneth D. Lewis -- Regional economic development in theory and practice / Richard M. McGahey -- Revitalizing America's older industrial cities : a state agenda for change / Jennifer S. Vey -- The talent imperative for older industrial areas / Randall Kempner --...

The economic chaos and turbulence we are now experiencing are merely the opening salvos in what will prove to be a long, disruptive period of adjustment for our world, our way of life, and our dreams and desires. Our choices now are to either evolve a new economic model that is compatible with...

"One-half of 1%": geopolitics, geoeconomics, and USAID -- "In the world for keeps": from the Marshall Plan to the Vietnam War -- Geoeconomics ascendant: development, interdependence, and neoliberalization -- Two decades of neoliberalization: from the Cold war to the War on Terror -- Development...

"Rapid changes in energy production and consumption are having major socioeconomic implications for the communities of rural America. Technological developments in horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) nuclear energy, biofuels, wind and solar energy have significantly increased...