The High-Tech Potential: Economic Development in Rural America - Softcover

Glasmeier, Amy K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412848474 ISBN 13: 9781412848473

Verlag: Routledge, 2012

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Book by Glasmeier Amy K

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"[A] comprehensive exploration of the geography of high-tech in the US that does not predict a bright future for rural high-tech but does answer many of the questions one might have about this issue." - R. A. Beauregard, Choice "Rich in ideas, facts, and hypotheses... useful for all persons with an interest in rural development and nonmetropolitan areas." - The Professional Geographer "Glasmeier clearly knows and understands high technology." - Growth and Change "Breaks new ground... . The first serious attempt to look comprehensively at whether or not rural America can effectively compete for high-tech industry." - Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy "Successfully dispels policy myths concerning the efficacy of high-tech industrial strategies in peripheral areas." - Economic Geography "Essential reading for those who want to understand the emerging high-technology space economy in general, and the new forces shaping American rural economy and society in particular." - Contemporary Sociology "Skillful use of the concept of spatial division of labor to explain rural high-tech location." - Journal of the American Planning Association

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Rural America is at a crossroads in its economic development. Like regions of other First World nations, the traditional economic base of rural communities in the United States is rapidly deteriorating. Natural resources, including agriculture, show little prospect for generating future job growth, and manufacturing has become a new source of instability. Faced with these changes and an increasing vulnerability to international economic events, rural communities have begun to seek high-technology industries and advanced services as candidates for job growth and economic stability. What is the potential for high-tech growth outside the largest cities? What is the role of high-tech industry in the economic development of non-metropolitan America? This book provides a hard-nosed look at the high-tech potential in rural economic development. Some of the questions Glasmeier addresses include: Are rural areas attractive to high tech? Will high tech follow earlier patterns and filter down the lowest-paid jobs to rural areas? Will rural communities be bypassed completely for even lower-wage Third World locations? Glasmeier answers in a sober analysis that separates fact from myth. Empirical data reveals the kinds of high-tech jobs that locate in rural areas, and the kinds of rural areas that attract high-tech jobs. This analysis leads to a highly critical evaluation of state and local economic development policy and recommendations for its improvement. This book is a must for policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and an informed public interested in the promise of high tech and the future of US economic development.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1412848474
• ISBN 13: 9781412848473
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240