School of Public Policy

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Doctoral Program

Economic Development - Comprehensive Reading List

 

Updated to 08/13/07

 

Introduction

 

Doctoral students in the economic development specialty in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy should be prepared to undertake a high level of individual reading and self-study across the breadth of the field of economic development and in specialized areas of their own interest.

 

This reading list is designed to indicate core literature and materials that cover the categories of concepts, methods, and procedures that doctoral economic development students are expected to master (see next section). Doctoral students in the economic development specialty should be familiar with most of the materials on this list. The continual evolution of the field and the requirement for students to undertake their own individual reading and self-study means that this list should not be viewed as comprising the complete set of materials that students are expected to master in preparation for the doctoral specialty examination.

 

In addition to the readings provided in this reading list, doctoral students in economic development are expected: (1) to have mastered the concepts, methods, and readings in the program’s two required graduate gateway courses in economic development policy and planning: PUBP 6600 Foundations of Local Economic Development Planning and Policy; and PUBP 6602 Economic Development Analysis and Practice; (2) to have mastered the concepts, methods, and readings of PUBP 8550 Advanced Urban and Regional Economic Development Policy and at least one other graduate elective course in economic development policy and planning; (3) to have undertaken additional self-study and reading of materials in key journals in the field.

 

Students are recommended to consult with faculty advisors to obtain guidance about additional reading. It is also appropriate that students undertake special topics courses with individual faculty to identify and become familiar with additional reading materials.

 

The Georgia Tech library has been requested to obtain the books included in this reading list. Students should advise faculty if books are not available, or if they have additional suggestions for readings. Some journals are available physically in the Georgia Tech library, with an increasing number available electronically online. However, since Georgia Tech journal holding are limited, students may have to visit other area libraries or make special journal article requests.

 

 

Key Economic Development Categories for Doctoral Study

 

The categories of concepts, methods, and procedures that doctoral students in the economic development specialty should be familiar with include the following:

 

-        Classical, neoclassical, growth theory approaches

-        Investment, economic base, economic driver theories

-        Wave, cycle, stage theories

-        Institutions, dependency, power theories

-        Innovation, learning, networking, social capital theories

   

-        Federal policies for economic development

-        State and local economic development strategies

-        Regional development planning tradition

-        Community economic development tradition

-        Public-private partnerships

-        Cross-border/Supra-national approaches

   

-        “Supply-side” incentives, industrial recruitment

-        Entrepreneurship, small business, micro-business development

-        Regional clusters and networking

-        Technological innovation and economic development

-        Knowledge economy and economic development

-        Inner city, equity and community-based economic development

-        Rural economic development strategies

-        Labor markets, human capital and economic development

-        Economic development finance

-        Sustainable economies

-        Urban and regional economic development in developing and transitional economies

 

·       Economic Development Methods

-        Methods and analytical tools frequently used in economic development planning, including:

-        Strategic planning processes for economic development

-        Sources and uses of information

-        Analysis of urban and regional economic structures

-        Employment and labor market assessments

-        Economic development and financial impact analysis

-        Enterprise assessment approaches

-        Innovation assessment techniques

-        Cluster analysis methods

-        Evaluation of economic development policies and programs

 

·       Practice of economic development policy

-        Use of economic development analysis in societal context

-        Economic development organizations / professional practice

 


 

Core Economic Development Reading List

 

1.     ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THEORY

 

1.1   Political economy context for economic development policy and planning

 

Carson, Richard L (1990), Comparative Economic Systems, M.E. Sharpe. ISBN: 0-87332-582-6

Hirschman, Alberto O. (1982), "Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?" Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XX, December, pp. 1463-1484.

Mancur, Olson (1982), The Rise and Decline of Nations, Yale University Press.

Polanyi, Karl (1944), The Great Transformation. [Paperback edition from Beacon Pr, 2001].

Staniland, Martin (1985), What is Political Economy? Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-03936-0

Zysman, John (1983), Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change, Cornell U.P., Chapters 3-5.

 

1.2   Contribution of the economics literature on economic development

 

Abramowitz, M. (1991), “Thinking About Growth” Chapter 1 in Thinking About Growth. New York, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-79.

Adelman, Irma (1961), “Adam Smith” (chapter 3); “Ricardo” (chapter 4), Theories of Economic Growth and Development, Standford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Cortright, Joe. 2001. New Growth Theory, Technology and Learning:  A Practitioner's Guide, Reviews of Economic Development Literature and Practice No. 4. Washington, DC: Economic Development Administration. [Download in PDF format from http://www.impresaconsulting.com/ngt.htm]

Hirschman, Albert O., (1958), The Strategy of Economic Development, new Haven: Yale University Press.

Krugman, P., (1995), Development, Geography and Economic Theory, MA: MIT Press.

Kuznets, Simon (1955), “Economic Growth and Income Inequality,” American Economic Review, 45, 1-28.

Matthews, R. C. O., The Economics of Institutions and the Sources of Growth, Economic Journal 96 (1986, December): 903-1918.

Nelson, R. (1996), “How New is New Growth Theory.” Challenge 40(5): 29-58.

Nelson, Richard, and Bhaven Sampat. 2001. “Making Sense of Institutions as a Factor Shaping Economic Performance.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 44:31-54.

Scherer, F. M. (1999). “Introduction" "Traditional Views of Economic Growth”; “The Transition to New Paradigms”; and “Interim Evaluation”, Chapters 1-4 in New Perspectives on Economic Growth and Technological Innovation. Washington, D.C., Brookings, pp. 1-52.

Schumpeter, Joseph, (1934), The Theory of Economic Development, New York: Oxford University Press.

Thompson, Wilbur, (1965), A Preface to Urban Economics, Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, D.C. (Fourth Printing 1972).

 

1.3   Social capital and economic development

 

Jacobs, J. (1961) The Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York: Random.

Putnam, Robert D. (1993), Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Florida, Richard, (2002). The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, New York: Basic Books.

 

2.     EVOLUTION OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FIELD

 

Bingham, Richard D., and Robert Mier, editors (1993). Theories of Local Economic Development: Perspectives from Across the Disciplines. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 0803948689

Bingham, Richard D., and Robert Mier, editors (1997). Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development: Issues in Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  ISBN 0803959206

Blair, John, and Laura Reese, editors (1998). Approaches to Economic Development: Readings from Economic Development Quarterly. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 0761918841

Cobb, James C. The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990. Second edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1982] 1993. ISBN 0-252-06162-4, pbk.

Eisinger, Peter K. (1988). The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Friedman, Robert, and William Schweke, editors (1981), Expanding the Opportunity to Produce, Washington, DC: Corporation for Enterprise Development.

Hill, Edward (1998), Principles for Rethinking the Federal Government’s Role in Economic Development, Economic Development Quarterly, 12, 4: 291-298.

Isserman, Andy (1994) “State Development Policy and Practice in the United States of America,” International Regional Science Review 17:49-100.

Moriarty, Barry, (1980) Industrial Location and Community Development, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Osborne, David, (1988), Laboratories of Democracy, Harvard Business School Press.

 

3.     ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND POLICY APPROACHES

 

3.1   Industrial restructuring and regional development

 

Alonso, William (1968), “Urban and Regional Imbalances in Economic Development.” In: John Friedmann and William Alonso, Eds.  Regional Policy: Readings in Theory and Applications, MIT Press.

Bolton, R. (1992), “Place Prosperity versus People Prosperity Revisited: An Old Issue with a New Angle,” Urban Studies 29, 2: 185-203.

Chinitz, Benjamin (1961), Contrasts in agglomeration: New York and Pittsburgh, American Economic Review, 51, 2. 279-289.

Harrison, Bennett (1994), Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility, New York: Basic Books.

Herzog, Henry and Alan Schlottman (1980), Industry Location and Public Policy.

Jacobs, Jane (1984), Cities and the Wealth of Nations, New York: Random House.

Johansson, Börje, Charlie Karlsonn, and Roger Stough (2002), editors, Regional Polices and Comparative Advantage, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Leigh, Nancey Green (1994), Stemming Middle-Class Decline: The Challenges to Economic Development Planning, Rutgers, NJ: CUPR Press.

Markusen, Ann R., Yong-Sook Lee, and Sean DiGiovanna, eds.  1999.  Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Ch. 1 & 2

Massey, Doreen.  1979. In What Sense a Regional Problem?  Regional Studies 13,2: 233-243.           

North, Douglas (1955), Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy, 243-258. 

Noponen, Helzi, Julie Graham, and Ann Markusen, Trading Industries, Trading Regions: International Trade, American Industry, and Regional Economies, 1993.

Richardson, H.W. 1978.  Regional Economics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press (p. 84 – 92).

Ruigrok, Winfried and Rob van Tulder, The Logic of International Restructuring, New York:  Routledge, 1995. Ch 1-3.

Tylecote, Andrew.  “Technological and economic long waves and their implications for employment.”  New Technology, Work and Employment, 10:1, pp. 3-18.

Williamson, Jeffrey G.  1965.  Regional Inequality and the Process of National Development: A Description of the Patterns.  Economic Development and Cultural Change 13,4: 158-200.

 

3.2   Inner city and economic development

 

Bates, Timothy (1995), Why Do Minority Business Development Programs Generate So Little Minority Business Development? Economic Development Quarterly 9, 1: 3.

Downs, Anthony (1994), New Visions for Metropolitan America.  Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.

Green, Gary Paul and Anna Haines (2002), Asset Building and Community Development, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Goldsmith, William W., and Edward J. Blakely, Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities, 1992.

Harrison, Bennett (1974), “Ghetto Economic Development: A Survey.”  Journal of Economic Literature 12 (April): 1-37.

Ihlanfeldt, K., & Sjoquist, D. (1998).  The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: A Review of Recent Studies and Their Implications for Welfare Reform.  Housing Policy Debate, 9(4), 849-892.

Immergluck, Daniel and Harry Holzer. 1996. What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers. The Review of Black Political Economy 24, 4: 135-

Kain, J. J. F. (1968). “Housing segregation, Negro employment, and metropolitan decentralization.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 82: 175-198.

Kennedy, Maureen and Paul Leonard. 2001. Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on gentrification and Policy Choices. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy (www.brookings.edu/urban).

Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Melendez, Edwin and Bennett Harrison. 1998. Matching the Disadvantaged to Job Opportunities: Structural Explanations for the Past Successes of the Center for Employment Training. Economic Development Quarterly. Volume 12, Number 1, 3.

Persky, Joseph, David Ranney and Wim Wiewel. 1993. Import Substitution and Local Economic Development. Economic Development Quarterly 7, 1: 18-.

Porter, Michael.  1997.  "New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development." Economic Development Quarterly, 11, 1: 11-27.

Sawicki, David and Mitch Moody. "Deja-Vu All Over Again: Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment." The Review of Black Political Economy, Volume 24, Numbers 2/3, Fall 1995/Winter 1996.

Sawicki, David. "Festival Marketplaces as Public Policy: A Guide for Governments in Public/Private Partnerships," Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 55, 3, Summer 1989.

Shipp, Sigmund C. “The Road not Taken: Alternative Strategies for Black Economic Development in the United States.” Journal of Economic Issues, 30, 1, March 1996, 79-95.

Teitz, M. B. (1997). “American Planning in the 1990s: Part II, The Dilemma of the Cities.” Urban Studies 34(5/6): 775-795.

Wilson, William Julius. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

 

3.3   Technological innovation and economic development

 

Abramovitz, M. (1986). “Catching Up, Forging Ahead, or Falling Behind.” Journal of Economic History 46(2): 385-406.   

Acs, Zoltan J. (2002), Innovation and the Growth of Cities, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Castells, Manuel and Peter Hall (1994), Technopoles of the World, 1994. London and New York: Routledge.

Cook, Philip and Martin Heidenreich (2003), Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World, Routledge, 2nd Edition.

Dahlman, C. and R. R. Nelson (1995). Social Absorption Capability, National Innovation Systems and Economic Development. Social Capability and Long Term Economic Growth. B. Koo and D. Perkins: 82-122.

Glasmeier, Amy K., The High-Tech Potential: Economic Development in Rural America, Rutgers, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1991.

Malecki, Edward J. (1997). Technology and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Local, Regional and National Competitiveness. Second edition.  London and Boston: Addison Wesley Longman.

Morgan, Kevin and Claire Nauwelaers (1999), Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less Favored Regions, Routledge.

Porter, M., (1998) The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Free Press.

Romer, P. (1993). Two Strategies for Economic Development: Using Ideas and Producing Ideas. Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics. L. S. S. Summer. Washington, D.C.: 63-91.

Saxenian, Annalee Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994

 

3.4   Small and medium enterprises, technology diffusion, and clusters

 

Audretsch, David, editor (2003), SMEs in the Age of Globalization, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Becattini, Giacomo, Marco Bellandi, Gabi Dei Ottati, and Fabio Sforzi (2003), From Industrial Districts to Local Development: An Itinerary of Research, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Bellini, Nicola (2003), Business Support Services: Marketing and the Practice of Regional Innovation Policy, Cork, Ireland: Oak Tree Press.

Birch, D.L. (1979), The Job Generation Process, MIT Program on Neighborhood and Regional Change.

Cooke, Philip (2001), Knowledge Economies: Clusters, Learning and Cooperative Advantage, Routledge.

Cooke, Philip and Kevin. Morgan (1998), The Associational Economy, Firms, Regions and Innovation, Oxford University Press.

OECD (2003), Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development: Programme and Policy Recommendations, Paris: France, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. ISBN 92-64-19978-0.

Piore, Michael and Charles Sable (1984), The Second Industrial Divide, New York: Basic Books.

Rosenfeld, Stuart, (1992), Competitive Manufacturing: New Strategies for Regional Development, CUPR Books.

Rosenfeld, Stuart, with Philip Shapira and J. Trent Williams (1992), Smart Firms in Small Towns, Aspen Institute.

Sengenberger, Werner, Gary Loveman, and Michael J. Piore (ed), (1990), The Re-emergence of Small Enterprises: Industrial Restructuring in Industrialised Countries, Geneva: International Institute for Labor Studies.

Shane, Scott, editor (2003), The Foundations of Entrepreneurship, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Shapira, Philip (1996), Modernizing Small Manufacturers in the United States and Japan: Public Technology Infrastructures and Strategies, in Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP): An International Perspective, pp. 285-334, (M. Teubal, D. Foray, M.  Justman, and E. Zuscovitch, Eds.),  Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

3.5   Organizational aspects of economic development

 

Forrant, R., Jean L. Pyle, William Lazonick, and Charles Levenstein (2001), Approaches to Sustainable Development: The Public University in the Regional Economy, University of Massachusetts Press.

Kingsley, G and Klein, H. 1998. Interfirm Collaboration as Modernization Strategy: A Survey of Case Studies.  Journal of Technology Transfer, 23, 1, 65-74.

Markusen, A. 1996. Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts. Economic Geography, 72, 3, 293-313.

Rogers, E.M. 1995. Chapters 1 & 2, The Diffusion of Innovations, 4th Edition.  New York: The Free Press, pp. 1-95.

Shapira, P. 2001.  US manufacturing extension partnerships: technology policy reinvented? Research Policy, 30, 6, 977-992.

Valente, T.W. 1995. Chapters 3-6, Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., pp. 31-90.

 

3.6   Human capital, labor markets and employment and training

 

Becker, Gary (1964), Human Capital, New York: NBER.

Giloth, Robert, editor (1998). Jobs and Economic Development: Strategies and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 0761909141

Harrison, Bennett and Marcus Weiss (1994), Workforce Development Networks: Community-Based Organizations and Regional Alliances, Sage Publications.

Kindlesburger, Charles. P. (1958), “Labor” (chapter 4), Economic Development, New York: McGraw Hill.

Marshall, F. Ray and King, Allan G., and Briggs, Vernon M., Labor Economics, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1984.

Marshall, Ray, and Marc Tucker (1992) Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Basic Books.

Mishel, Lawrence, Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey, (2003), The State of Working America 2002-2003, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. ISBN 0-8014-8803-6. [Updated annually.]

Reich, Robert (1991), The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism. Alfred A. Knopf.

 

3.7   Sustainability and economic development

Barrett, James and J. Andrew Hoerner (2002), Clean Energy and Jobs, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. ISBN 0-944826-97-0.

Fitzgerald, Joan and Nancey Green Leigh (2002), Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

 

3.8   Economic development – developing and transitional economies

 

Ellerman, David (2005). Helping People Help Themselves. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI. [LINK]

Evans, Peter, "Predatory, Developmental and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State." (mimeo)

Portes Alejandro, Castells Manuel and Benton Lauren, editors (1989), The Informal Economy. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 0-8018-3736-7

Schneider, Ben Ross and Sylvia Maxfield (1997), "Business, the State, and Economic Performance in Developing Countries," in S. Maxfield and B.R. Schneider (eds.): Business and the State in Developing Countries, pp.3-36, Cornell University Press.

Singh, Kavaljit (2000), Taming Global Financial Flows, St. Martin's Press, Chapters 1, 6, 7.

Wade, Robert (1990), Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization, Princeton University Press.

World Bank, (1993), The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy, Oxford University Press Chapter 4.

 

4.     ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT METHODS AND TOOLS

 

4.1    Economic Development Strategies

 

Blakely, Edward J. and Ted Bradshaw (2002), Planning Local Economic Development, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lyons, Thomas and Roger E. Hamlin (2001), Creating an Economic Development Action Plan, Praeger.

Malizia, Emil E. and Feser, Edward J. 1999. Understanding Local Economic Development. ISBN 0-88285-163-2. 

 

4.2    Analytical Approaches

 

Bendavid-Val, Avrom (1991), Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners, Praeger, New York.

Blair, J.P. (1995), Local Economic Development: Analysis and Practice, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Edward, and Edward J. Feser (1999) Industrial and Regional Clusters: Concepts and Comparative Applications. Web Book of Regional Science. Morgantown, WV: Regional Research Institute.

Fujita, M., Krugman, P., & Venables, A. (2000), The Spatial Economy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Markusen, Ann. (1999). Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies. Regional Studies, Col 33.9, pp. 869-884. [PDF]

Schaffer, William A. (1999), Regional Impact Models, Web Book of Regional Science, Regional Research Institute, Morgantown, WV. Chapters 3, 4, and 5. http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Schaffer/TOC.html

Voyteck, Kenneth P. and Mary L. McLean. Understanding Your Economy, Using Analysis to Guide Local Strategic Planning. Chicago, Illinois: American Planning Association, Second Addition, 1992.

Worgan, A., and S. Nunn, Some Tips on Using Patent Data to Measure Urban and Regional Innovation, Economic Development Quarterly, 16(3), August 2002. Bergman,

Youtie, J., P. Shapira, and J. David Roessner (1995) Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide, Volume 1: Regional Needs Assessment Approaches, Aspen Institute, Washington, DC.

 

4.3    Economic Development Finance

 

Blakely, Edward, and Susan Giles (2001). Economic Development Finance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 0761919120

Burchell, Robert W. and David Listokin (1978), The Fiscal Impact Handbook: Estimating Local Costs and Revenues of Land Development, Piscataway NJ: Center for Urban and Policy Research.

Seidman, Karl F. Economic Development Finance, Sage Publications, 2004.

 

4.4    Evaluation Methods

 

Bartik, Timothy. Better Evaluation Is Needed for Economic Development Programs to Thrive. Economic Development Quarterly, May 1994, 8(2), p. 99.

Giloth, Robert P. Stalking Local Economic Development Benefits: A Review of Evaluation Issues. Economic Development Quarterly, February 1992, 6(1), p. 80.

Timothy Bartik, Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies? 1991.

 

5.     PRACTICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY

 

Economic Development Administration (2002), What is Economic Development? US Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. [HTML file http://www.doc.gov/eda/html/2a1_whatised.htm]

Fitzgerald, Joan and Nancey Green Leigh (2002), Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Harrison Institute for Public Law (2000), Balancing Democracy and Trade: Roles for State and Local Government in the Global Trade Debate, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. [PDF file: download from http://www.cfed.org/sustainable_economies/globalization/Reports/stateroles.pdf]

State of New Jersey (n.d.), Code of Ethics, Department of Commerce and Economic Development. [PDF file: download from http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ethics/cmrccode.pdf]

 

6.         KEY JOURNALS

 

Doctoral students in the economic development specialty are expected to undertake additional self-study and reading of materials in key journals in the field. The diverse nature of the economic development field means that relevant articles are published in an array of journals. The following represents a selection of core, specialty, literature abstracting, and related journals. This list is offered as a guide; it not exclusive, and students should look at other literature sources too. One way to do this is to consult literature abstracting journals, especially for survey articles.

 

6.1       Core Journals in the Economic Development field

 

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Economic Development Quarterly

Economic Development Review

Economic Geography

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Environment and Planning C

European Planning Studies

European Urban and Regional Studies

Growth and Change

Regional Studies

Small Business Economics

Urban Affairs Review

 

6.2       Specialty Journals

 

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies

 

International Regional Science Review

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Urban Studies

Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy [open online access]

 

Research Policy

Research Evaluation

International Journal of Technology Management

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

 

Review of Development Economics

Development

Economics of Transition

 

Local Economy

Venture Capital

 

6.3       Literature Abstracting (including Survey Articles)

 

Journal of Economic Literature

Journal of Planning Literature

 

6.4            Related Journals

 

General Reading on Economic, Technology, Government, Policy and Regional Trends:

The Economist

Business Week

 

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Journal of the American Planning Association

 

7.         WORLDWIDE WEB, LISTSERVS, OTHER ELECTRONIC SOURCES

 

Many materials, sources and journals are now available electronically via the Internet. Students are recommended to undertake their own searches and bookmark relevant sites. Selective subscription to economic development scholarly and professional newsletters and listservs is another way to keep up with new literature. Some selected electronic items are noted below:

 

 

Economic Development Blogs