Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Memorandum to a Concerned Finance Minister -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Why do so many place-based interventions fail? -- How can the region's countries approach convergence? -- Fragmented cities, stuck people, walled-off...

This book explores geoeconomic insights into the global economy of superpowers. In ten chapters, the author explores causal relationships between global economic disparities and historical events, proceeding from the general to the specific.

While the suburbs of most metropolitan areas are wealthier than their urban counterparts, rapid regional growth can improve the welfare of both city and suburb, according to a new book from Janet Rothenberg Pack. In Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America, Pack identifies growth trends...

Front Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Analytical Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 How the Federal Government Created the Internet, and How the Internet Is Threatened by the Government's Withdrawal -- 3 Federal Spending and the Regionalization of...