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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: While waiting for rain
    sub title: community, economy, and law in a time of change
  name:
    name part: Schlegel, John Henry
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Sustainable History Monograph Pilot
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations, 1 color map
  abstract: "What might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. After showing why that economy provides an implausible standard--made possible by the lack of economic competition from the European and Asian countries, winners or losers, touched by the war--John Henry Schlegel attempts to answer the question of what to do. While Waiting for Rain first examines the economic history of the United States as well as that of Buffalo, New York: an appropriate stand-in for any city that may have seen its economy start to fall apart in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. It makes clear that neither Buffalo nor the United States as a whole has had an economy in the sense of "a persistent market structure that is the fusion of an understanding of economic life with the patterns of behavior within the economic, political, and social institutions that enact that understanding" since both economies collapsed. Next, this book builds a plausible theory of how economic growth might take place by examining the work of the famous urbanist, Jane Jacobs, especially her book Cities and the Wealth of Nations. Her work, like that of many others, emphasizes the importance of innovation for economic growth, but is singular in its insistence that such innovation has to come from local resources. It can neither be bought nor given, even by well-intentioned political actors. As a result Americans generally, as well as locally, are like farmers in the midst of a drought, left to review their resources and wait. Finally, it returns to both the local Buffalo and the national economies to consider what these political units might plausibly do while waiting for an economy to emerge."
  note: John Henry Schlegel.
  note: Open access
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-371) and index.
  note: Sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: Buffalo (N.Y.)
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jacobs, Jane
      name part: 1916-2006
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Competition
    topic: Technological innovations
    geographic: United States
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Personal property
    geographic: United States
    genre: Cases
  classification: HC108
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Sustainable History Monography Pilot
  identifier: 9780472902972
  identifier: 0472902970
  identifier: 9780472075614
  identifier: 9780472055616
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12158309
  access condition: Open access
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 220803
    record change date: 20221129013936.8
    record identifier: in00004604687
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng