Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Uncertainty in Local Economic Development Academic Article

abstract

• The Reese and Rosenfeld analysis of the conventional wisdom about economic development is important and timely. They correctly argue that research has not yielded a set of unequivocal laws, general truths, or first principles regarding local economic development. However, in their enthusiasm to arrive at their conclusion, they overstate the problem, and they overlook methodological advances in the field. Over the past 15 years, researchers have produced findings that clarify and fine-tune a dynamic and complex process. Furthermore, the Reese and Rosenfeld prescriptionto focus on the unique civic culture of a community as the explanatory variabletakes inquiry in the wrong direction.

authors

• Bowman, Ann

published proceedings

• Economic Development Quarterly

author list (cited authors)

• Bowman, A. O.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Bowman, Ann O’M

publication date

• November 2001

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/089124240101500404

start page

• 317

end page

• 319

volume

• 15

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089124240101500404