"Without an honest and robust examination of both the effectiveness and the efficiency of local sustainability policies, the success of the entire sustainability movement in the U.S. is uncertain. This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of what constitutes local...

Globalization and a High-Tech Economy -- International Trade and California Industry -- Foreign Outsourcing and Domestic Industry -- Intra-Firm Trade and Intermediate Inputs -- International Networks and High-Tech Exports -- Global Linkages, the High-Tech Sector, and State Policy Choices --...

One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a...