PUBP 8110S/CP6231 - Dr. Philip Shapira - Spring Quarter 1996,
MW 5.00 p.m.-6.30 p.m., D.M. Smith 203 - Updated 5/31/96
This course provides an introduction to the context, theory, process,
and practice of local economic development planning and policy.
Topics covered include: differing theoretical and conceptual explanations
of the economic development process; international, national,
and regional factors affecting local economic development; federal,
state, and local roles; contrasting economic development approaches
and methods; equity, participation, conflict, and cooperation
in economic development; and economic development practice and
policy. The course is the first of a two-part sequence. The second
course, which is taught in the Fall Quarter, focuses on specific
topics and issues of implementation in economic development.
Number of times this course outline accessed: 
Course Outline
1. Introduction to the Course (Wednesday,
March 27)
2. What is Economic Development?
(Monday, April 1)
3. The Economic Development Problem (Wednesday,
April 3)
4. Processes of Economic Development (Monday,
April 8, Wednesday, April 10)
-- No class (Monday, April 15)
5. Policy Evolution: Federal, State,
and Local Roles (Wednesday, April 17)
6. Supply-Side Approaches: Competing
for Business (Monday, April 22 and Wednesday, April 24)
7. Indigenous Development: Demand-Side
Approaches and Enterprise Development (Monday, April 29 and Wednesday,
May 1)
8. Technology and Economic Development (Monday,
May 6 and Wednesday, May 8)
9. Economic Development Clustering, Networks
and Linkages (Monday, May 13)
10. Human Resources and Economic
Development (Wednesday, May 15)
11. Community-Based Approaches to
Economic Development (Monday, May 20)
12. Economic Development Practice (Wednesday,
May 22)
-- Georgia Tech Holiday Monday, May 27
13. Review and Prognosis (Wednesday, May
29)
Course Goal and Objectives
To provide an introduction to the context, theory, process, and
practice of local economic development planning and policy through:
- An understanding of different perspectives on the meaning
of economic development and the interpretation of economic development
problems.
- An introduction to contrasting and complementary explanations
of how economic development occurs at regional and local levels.
- An overview of the development of economic development policies,
major programs and practices in the United States and of the roles
of federal, state and local entities, community groups, and private
organizations.
- An understanding of principal current and emerging approaches
and practices to promoting economic development at regional and
local levels and an appreciation of the impacts of these approaches.
- An appreciation key contemporary issues of policy and practice
in regional and local economic development and of the broader
forces and factors affecting regional and local economic development
policies.
- An introduction to issues of equity, participation, conflict,
and cooperation in the economic development planning and implementation
process.
- An introduction to key elements of the literature and debates
about regional and local economic development policy and practice.
Assessment
Assessment will be comprised as follows:
- Electronic Assignment
(5% of grade; assigned 4/3; due 4/10)
- Written Assignment
(30% of grade; assigned 4/17; due 4/29)
- Electronic Assignment (10% of grade; assigned individually;
due one week later)
- Written Assignment (40%
of grade; assigned 5/15; due 5/31)
- Class Participation (15% of grade)
Note: Electronic assignments will involve use of computerized
information searches using the world-wide web and review and analysis
of reading materials submitted electronically by email. As necessary,
students should seek advice and assistance from their own school
computer support staff, Georgia Tech computing support, or library
personnel.
Required and Reserve Books
The following are required books (purchase in paperback
from the Student Center bookshop):
- Edward J. Blakely,
Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice,
Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1994 [second edition].
- Peter K. Eisinger,
The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic
Development Policy in the United States, Madison, WI: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1988,
- Richard D. Bingham and
Robert Mier (eds), Theories of Local Economic Development:
Perspectives From Across the Disciplines, Newbury Park,
CA: Sage, 1993.
The following books have been placed on reserve in the main library.
Students are recommended to consult them for further reading and
preparation of assignments. All these reserve books are listed
under the instructor's name, although in some cases they will
be under different course numbers.
- Timothy Bartik, Who Benefits from State and Local Economic
Development Policies? 1991.
- Harry Black, Achieving Economic Development: Tools That Work,
1991.
- John Blair, Local Economic Development: Analysis and Practice,
1995.
- Michael H. Best, The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial
Restructuring, 1990.
- Richard D. Bingham, Edward Hill, and Sammis White (eds), Financing
Economic Development: An Institutional Response, 1990.
- Thomas Boston, Race, Class and Conservatism, 1988.
- Manuel Castells and Peter Hall, Technopoles of the World,
1994.
- C.M. Coburn, Partnerships: A Compendium of State and Federal
Cooperative Technology Programs, Batelle Press, Columbus, 1995
(on reserve in East Wing, 1st Floor, location T21.C63 1995).
- Corporation for Enterprise Development, The Development Report
Card for the States, Washington, DC., 1995.
- William W. Goldsmith and Edward J. Blakely, Separate Societies:
Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities, 1992.
- Amy K. Glasmeier, The High-Tech Potential: Economic Development
in Rural America, Rutgers, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research,
1991.
- Bennett Harrison, Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of
Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility, 1994.
- Henry Herzog and Alan Schlottman, Industry Location and Public
Policy, 1980.
- J. Mac Holladay, Economic and Community Development: A Southern
Exposure, 1993.
- Jane Jacobs, Cities and the Wealth of Nations, 1984.
- Len Krimerman, When Workers Decide: Workplace Democracy Takes
Root in North America, 1992.
- Cheryl A. Farr, Shaping the Local Economy: Current Perspectives
on Economic Development, 1984.
- Thomas Lyons and Roger Hamlin, Creating and Economic Development
Action Plan: A Guide for Development Professions, 1991.
- Edward Malecki, Technology and Economic Development: The Dynamics
of Local, Regional, and National Change, 1991.
- Emil E. Malizia, Local Economic Development: A Guide to Practice,
1985.
- Deborah Markley, Business Finance as a Tool for Development,
1992.
- Barry Moriarty, Industrial Location and Community Development,
1991.
- Helzi Noponen, Julie Graham, and Ann Markusen, Trading Industries,
Trading Regions: International Trade, American Industry, and Regional
Economies, 1993.
- David Osborne, Laboratories of Democracy, 1988.
- Michael Piore and Charles Sable, The Second Industrial Divide,
1984.
- Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions
in Modern Italy, 1993.
- Robert Reich, The Work of Nations, 1991.
- Lloyd Rodwin and Hidehiko Sazanami, Deindustrialization and
Regional Economic Transformation: The Experience of the United
States, 1989.
- Stuart Rosenfeld, Competitive Manufacturing: New Strategies
for Regional Development, 1992.
- Stuart Rosenfeld with Philip Shapira and J. Trent Williams,
Smart Firms in Small Towns, 1992.
- Stuart Rosenfeld, New Technologies and New Skills: Two Year
Colleges at the Vanguard of Modernization, Regional Technology
Strategies, Chapel Hill, NC, 1995
- Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development, 1934.
- Werner Sengenberger, Gary Loveman, and Michael J. Piore (ed),
The Re-emergence of Small Enterprises: Industrial Restructuring
in Industrialised Countries, Geneva: International Institute for
Labor Studies, 1990.
- Michael Storper and Allen Scott, Pathways to Industrialization
and Regional Development, 1992.
- Wilbur Thompson, A Preface to Urban Economics, 1965.
- Avrom David-Val, Regional and Local Analysis for Practitioners,
1983.
Additional Readings and Electronic Reserves
Additional readings will be available through handouts in class
and in the Georgia Tech electronic reserve collection.
The electronic reserve collection for this course can be accessed
at http://www.library.gatech.edu/resv/pubp.
(You will need a Georgia Tech library login and password to access
the electronic reserves)
Journals
Arguably, the most useful journal is Economic Development Quarterly.
Students are recommended to review issues of this publication.
Other journals of interest are Economic Development Review,
Economic Development Commentary, Regional Studies,
Environment and Planning A, and selected articles in the
Journal of the American Planning Association.
World Wide Web
There is a growing amount of economic development material on
the World Wide Web. One of initial assignments for the class will
be to develop a more comprehensive listing of sources. A most
useful site to begin with is the Economic Development Society
at http://acad.bryant.edu/~pnorton/archives.html.
This contains an extensive set of abstracts on economic development
policy, 1990-1995. The archive is composed of the following seven
sections: 1.Theory (& Defense Conversion) 2.Practice &
Programs 3.Finance 4.Entrepreneurship 5.Downturns 6.Exports 7.Sectors
(Including High-Tech)
Guest Practitioners
On selected topics, Guest Practitioners will be invited to talk
to the class and respond to questions. Guest Practitioners will
include:
READING ASSIGNMENTS AND BACKGROUND MATERIALS
1. Introduction to the Course.
- Blakely, Introduction, xiii-xvi
- Eisinger, Chapter 1.
2. What Is Economic Development?
- Blakely, Chapter 3.
- Eisinger, Chapter 3.
- Bingham and Mier, Chapter 14 ("Metaphors of Economic
Development").
- Governor's Development Council, Building a New Economic
Engine for the 21st Century: From Strength to Diversity, Atlanta,
GA: 1993, p. iii-iv, 1-20 (library reserve).
3. The Economic Development
Problem.
- Blakely, Chapter 1.
- Eisinger, Chapter 4.
- Glickman, Norman J. and Amy K. Glasmeier, "The International
Economy and the American South," in Rodwin and Sazanami,
Ch 3. (library reserve).
- Reich, Robert B. "Why the Rich are Getting Richer and
the Poor, Poorer," The Work of Nations, New York:
Vintage Books, 1991, Ch. 17 (library reserve).
Web Source:
4. Processes of Economic
Development
- Bingham and Meier, Chapter 2 (Arthur C. Nelson, "Theories
of Regional Development").
- Edward J. Maleki, Economic Growth and Decline: Theories and
Facts, Chapter 1, Technology and Economic Development,
Longmans, New York, 1991 (library reserve).
- Werner Sengenberger, "Local Development and International
Competition," International Labour Review, 132,3,
1993 (GA Tech electronic reserve)
See also:
- Osborne, "The First Agenda: Creating Economic Growth,"
Ch 8., and "The Second Agenda: The Poor and the Growth Process,"
Ch 9. (library reserve).
- Wilbur Thompson, "Economic Growth and Development: Processes,
Stages, and Determinants," A Preface to Urban Economics,
Chapter 1, John Hopkins Press, MD, 1965. (library reserve)
- Bingham and Meier, Chapter 2 (Marie Howland, "Applying
Theory to Practice in Rural Economies").
5. Policy Evolution: Federal, State
and Local Role
- Blakely, Chapter 2
- Eisinger, Chapter 2, 5.
- Pilcher, Dan, "The Third Wave of Economic Development,"
State Legislatures, November 1991 (GA Tech electronic reserve)
- Fosler, Scott, "State Economic Policy: The Emerging Paradigm,"
Economic Development Quarterly, February 1992 (GA Tech
electronic reserve)
Web Source:
6. Supply-Side Approaches: Competing for
Business
- Bingham and Meier, Chapter 1 (John Blair and Robert Premus,
"Location Theory").
- Eisinger, Chapters 6, 7, & 8.
- Additional articles on industrial recruitment and site-location
(handouts).
Web Source:
7. Indigenous Development: Demand-Side
Approaches and Enterprise Development
- Blakely, Chapter 8.
- Eisinger, Chapters 9, 10, 12.
- Bingham and Meier, Chapter 12 (Timothy Bates, "Theories
of Entrepreneurship")
See also
- Howard, Robert, "Can Small Business Help Countries Compete"
Harvard Business Review, November-December 1990 (GA Tech
electronic reserve)
- Bennett Harrison, Lean and Mean, Chapter 2, "The
Myth of Small Firms as the Predominant Job Generators," (library
reserve).
- Deborah Markley, Business Finance as a Tool for Development,
1992 (library reserve).
8. Technology and Economic Development
- Eisinger, Chapter 11
- Bingham and Meier, Chapter 12 (Melkers, Bugler and Bozeman
"Technology Transfer and Economic Development")
See also
- Castells and Hall, Chapters 1-3, 9-10 (library reserve)
Web Source
9. Economic Development Clustering, Networks
and Linkages
- Rosenfeld, Competitive Manufacturing, chapters 5, 9 (library
reserve)
- Harrison, Lean and Mean, Chapter 1
Web Source
10. Human Resources and Economic Development
- Blakely, Chapter 9.
- Bingham and Meier, Chapter 6 (Joan Fitzgerald, "Labor
Force, Education and Work")
- Reich, Robert B.
"The Three Jobs of the Future,"
The Work of Nations, New York: Vintage Books, 1991, Ch.
14, (library reserve).
- Boston, Thomas, Race, Class, and Conservatism, "Segmented
Markets, Discriminated Labor," Ch 4. (library reserve).
See also:
- Osborne, "Arkansas: The Education Model," Ch 3.
(library reserve)
11. Community-Based Economic Development
- Eisinger, Chapter 13
- Blakely, Chapters 7, 10.
- Bingham and Mier: Chapter 4 (Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and
Robert Giloth, "The Economic Development of Neighborhoods
and Localities"); Chapter 5 (William Goldsmith and Lewis
Randolph, "Ghetto Economic Development,"); Chapter 9
(John Betancur and Douglas Gills, "Race and Class in Local
Economic Development").
Web Source:
12. Economic Development Practice
- Blakely, Chapters 4, 6, 11, 12
- Bingham and Mier, Chapter 10 (Elaine B. Sharp and Michael
G. Bath, "Citizenship and Economic Development")
- Emil Malizia, Local Economic Development Planning: A Guide
to Practice, Prager: New York, 1985, "Modes of Planning
Economic Development," Ch 2. (library reserve).
13. Review and Prognosis
- Blakely, Chapter 14
- Eisinger, Chapter 14.
Web Sources:
Communication and Office Hours
Electronic office hours: for fastest response, students
are encouraged to communicate by electronic mail, to: philip.shapira@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Physical office hours: in Room 314, DM Smith Building, Mondays,
Wednesdays 3.30-4.40
Students are also encouraged to schedule individual appointments
at other times, as necessary.
Electronic Listserv
An electronic "listserv" (or group mailing list) for
this course has been established on the Georgia Tech computer
system. The listserv will be used for group communications and
submission of selected assignments. Students taking the course
should subscribe immediately after the first class.
To subscribe to the list send the following message to listproc@list.gatech.edu
subscribe econ-dev <your name major>
e.g. subscribe econ-dev Chris Smith PubP MS
This request must be submitted by the end user in their mail account,
not by another user.
To mail a message to the list, mail the message to
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