congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly … benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it … is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities …

innovation ecosystems in three metropolitan areas. With the Triple Helix framework, the ecosystem perspective, and shared vision … for transformation initiatives, we explore relationships as structure in the metropolitan areas of Austin, TX; Minneapolis …

and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose governments per square mile have a positive impact on metropolitan …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …

autonomy and that their development relies on proximity to metropolitan areas. Three central questions will examine the concept …

is compared with the nationaleconomy in the context of the taxonomy developed. I thenpresent a model of regional economic … growth based on trade,specialization, and agglomeration economies. That model,which seeks to explain growth of real per … capita income, hasbeen estimated with annual data for the region. The crosssectionversion of that model was developed in …