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Note:
Owing the incredibly
high cost of text books, I am going to link to the following web site for this
class and I urge students to utilize this wonderful resource. It is called the Web Book of Regional
Science. It is a collective compendium
of chapters or “books” on various aspects of regional, urban, and economic
analysis.
Web Book of Regional
Science. Here
Other Readings (I will add to this as the class goes on)
*O’Brien, Meghan. Iowa Retail and Service Business Threshold Analysis. Regional Capacity Analysis
Program. 2008. Report. Just look at the beginning portion to get an
idea of the concepts and what she is measuring.
*Hustedde, Shaffer, & Pulver. “ Community Economic Analysis: A How to Manual.”
Note:
This very popular workbook can be purchased for $12 at this location: http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/rdev/pubs/contents/141.htm
. This manual used to cost $4, but, hey, it’s a free market, right? And costs are rising everywhere, and besides,
there’s no free lunch unless of course you are member of the U.S.
Congress.
However ….
If free is what you seek, the manual can
be accessed at this address: http://www.epa.gov/greenkit/pdfs/howto.pdf .
*Swenson & Eathington.
“Iowa Regional Economic Atlas.” Read Pages 1 – 9. Just look over the rest to get a sense of the
findings. This shows how we might
consider dividing the state up into distinct, yet overlapping functional trade
territories. Here
*There is also a summary of economic
base at this FSU web address: Link
*Bruckner and Hastings. “An introduction to
regional input-output analysis.” Here
Swenson & Eathington.
“A Modern Economic Development Romance: Courting the Creative
Worker. (Parts 1 and 2 only – the rest
is really boring) Paper.
*Swenson (yup, it’s me again), “Introduction to Economic
Impact Assessment.” Here.
*BEA RIMS II Regional Multipliers Users Handbook. Here (read to page 9 and case studies 3 and
4).
* Swenson (yet again), “Confessions of an Economic Impact
Analyst.” Here
*”Mitsubishi Cuts Hurt, But Area Chugs On,” Chicago
Tribune. article.
Students needing official classifications of government
finance terms can go to http://www.census.gov/govs/www/class.html
Readings on economic development issues: (* are required)
*Matt Kane, Public-sector economic
development. Here
*Peter Fisher, The fiscal consequences
of competition for capital. Here
Kenneth P. Thomas, The
Sources and Processes of Tax and Subsidy Competition. Here
*Timothy J. Bartik, Incentive
Solutions. Here
*Greg LeRoy Eight Concrete Ways to Curtail the
Economic War Among the States. Here
*Rachel Weber, Negotiating the Ideal
Deal. Here
I did a piece on Tax Increment Financing a couple of years
ago. It caused a fuss with one faculty
member in my department, a lot of city folks, and chamber of commerce
types. It also led to a couple of
legislative committee hearings on the topic of TIF abuse in Iowa. If you’re interested in reading it (it’s not
mandatory) and some associated pieces, look below.
Dave Swenson & Liesl Eathington, Do Tax Increment Finance
Districts Spur Social and Economic Growth?
Here
Along the same vein, Peter Fisher and Charles Bruner did this
piece, which also was in response to Iowa’s TIFs: here
Last, I have not been idle.
Eathington and I did another report on TIFs: “Tax Increment Financing
Growth in Iowa.”
You can link to it here.
Last
Section Section: Evaluation and Benefit Cost Analysis
First:
Read my piece on evaluation in economics at Link: Evaluating Public Sector Spending in Support of the
Economy: A Call for an Economic Development Principles Dialogue in Iowa.
Paul Portney, Benefit Cost Analysis Link
Then go to Garrett and Leatherman in the Web Book of Regional
Science, Chapter 5: Here
Next:
(I’m going to add some more modern examples as we get closer
to this portion of the class)
Edward R. Gramlich, The Methodology of Benefit-Cost Analysis Link
Here are federal general guidelines for benefit cost
analysis. Link