Topic
Economic Development
547 published works
Rush on Business
Surveys on Iowa’s Legal Climate
By Rush Nigut
The Iowa Association of Business and Industry has published a survey indicating Iowa's legal climate is hurting job growth. The survey also states that many Iowa business leaders are dissatisfied…
The Right Coast
The Irish Economic Miracle Mike Rappaport
What caused the Irish economic miracle? Reuven Brenner explains: Here s what Ireland did or had to do to attract this wave of talent and ambition to its shores.To begin,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Cardinal Urges Focus on Economic Development
A Latin-American cardinal says the United States could do more toease undocumented immigration if it focused on economic development ratherthan border crackdowns."Instead of trying to build walls or putting the…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
The Millenium Village Experiment
There are many obstacles to achieving the Millenium Development Goals, pessimism, inadequate financing, corruption, armed conflict, political and social instability, and global warming among them. But a recent Nature editorial…
Land Use Prof Blog
Should Montreal be more American?
[Global Sunday] Why can't U.S. cities be more like European ones? That's what many Americans ask when they visit the dense, efficient, and well-maintained cities of western Europe. Even in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Madrid Update No. 5
Today the World Forum on Migration in Madrid featured two long sessions focused on ¨Economic Capacity Building in the South.¨ There is a lot of thinking and doing in that…
Coordination Problem
Sweatshop-Intensive Countries and International Labor Standards
By Pete Boettke
A few days ago I posted on my forthcoming paper with Josh Hall on international labor standards and economic development in the Journal of Labor Research. Our analysis of countries…
Land Use Prof Blog
There was a chain store in Nantucket …
The town of Nantucket, Mass., voted last week to ban chain stores from its historic downtown. Once an isolated whaling port (see H. Melville, Moby-Dick), Nantucket is now one…
PropertyProf Blog
Cohen on Kelo
By propertyprof
Charles E. Cohen (Capital University School of Law) has posted Eminent Domain After Kelo v. City of New London: An Argument for Banning Economic Development Takings on SSRN. Here's the…
Louisiana Law Blog
Gulf Opportunity Zone Workshop
By Kean Miller
On March 22, Kean Miller, Regions Bank, Latter & Blum, Morgan Keegan, Laporte Sehrt Romig Hand CPAs, New Orleans CityBusiness magazine, and the Algiers Economic Development Foundation will present an…