Author: Arthur B. LafferPublisher:
ISBN: 9780982231524
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Rich States, Poor States
Author: Arthur B. LafferPublisher:
ISBN: 9780982231524
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
North Carolina in the Connected Age
Author: Michael L. WaldenPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future. Today we are living in a technologically connected age that has completely transformed the North Carolina economy, Walden explains. Once driven by tobacco, textiles, and furniture, the North Carolina economy now thrives on technology, pharmaceuticals, finance, food processing, and the manufacture of vehicle parts. While the state as a whole has benefited from these dramatic transformations, some population groups and regions have not experienced consistent economic growth. Walden identifies education as the key factor; a skilled, college-educated work force, he argues, is now a region's most prized commodity. Walden traces how the forces of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have remade the North Carolina economy, impacted people and regions, and led to the most substantive public policy debates in decades. Written in a lively style and including original research and insights, North Carolina in the Connected Age is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the state arrived where it is today and what its future might hold.
Local Food Systems; Concepts, Impacts, and Issues
Author: Steve MartinezPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437933629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. Defining ¿local¿ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers selling directly to consumers at regional farmers¿ markets or to schools, is well recognized. Statistics suggest that local food markets account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production. For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of their sales than for larger farms. Charts and tables.
Economics Information Report
Author: Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers: Hearings and workshops before the Commission on Agricultural Workers, 1989-1993
Author: United States. Commission on Agricultural WorkersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309287375
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the state level, with the goal of improving the public's understanding of key policy strategies and exemplary practices. Based on a series of workshops and conferences that brought together policymakers along with leaders of industry and academia in a select number of states, the study highlights a rich variety of policy initiatives underway at the state and regional level to foster knowledge based growth and employment. Perhaps what distinguishes this effort at the state level is most of all the high degree of pragmatism. Operating out of necessity, innovation policies at the state level often involve taking advantage of existing resources and recombining them in new ways, forging innovative partnerships among universities, industry and government organizations, growing the skill base, and investing in the infrastructure to develop new technologies and new industries. Many of these initiatives are being guided by leaders from the private sector and universities. The objective of Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives: Competing in the 21st Century is not to do an empirical review of the inputs and outputs of various state programs. Nor is it to evaluate which programs are superior. Indeed, some of the notable successes, such as the Albany nanotechnology cluster, represent a leap of leadership, investment, and sustained commitment that has had remarkable results in an industry that is actively pursued by many countries. The study's goal is to illustrate the approaches taken by a variety of highly diverse states as they confront the increasing challenges of global competition for the industries and jobs of today and tomorrow.
The Textile Industry in North Carolina
Author: Brent D. GlassPublisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Author Brent D. Glass examines North Carolina's textile industry from its roots in the spinning wheels and handlooms of the colonial and antebellum periods through the massive buy-outs, consolidations, and plant closings of the 1980s. Contains more than 50 black-and-white illustrations and a selected bibliography.
Soil Survey
Author: Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers
Author: United States. Commission on Agricultural WorkersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Tar Heel Politics 2000
Author: Paul LuebkePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807889326
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Offering an insightful analysis of North Carolina political trends and personalities, Paul Luebke moves beyond the usual labels of Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal. In Tar Heel Politics 2000, he argues that North Carolina's real political battle is between two factions of the state's political and economic elite: modernizers and traditionalists. Modernizers draw their strength from the bankers, developers, news media, and other urban interests that support growth, he says. Traditionalists, in contrast, are rooted in small-town North Carolina and fundamentalist Protestantism, tied to agriculture and low-wage industries and threatened by growth and social change. Both modernizers and traditionalists are linked with politicians who represent their interests. An updated and revised version of Luebke's Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities (1990), Tar Heel Politics 2000 highlights the resurgence of the southern Republican Party for the first time in a century and discusses a number of significant changes that have occurred over the last decade. These include the institutionalization of a viable two-party system in the General Assembly, the further shift of native-born whites throughout the South into the Republican voting column, and ideological conflict in North Carolina that parallels to some extent the post-1994 battles between the Republican Congress and the Clinton White House. In addition, the book provides a detailed analysis of the political appeal of Senator Jesse Helms and draws on Luebke's insights as a member of the North Carolina State House since 1991.