Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy

by Harold Wolman, Travis St. Clair, Howard Wial

Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors employ a wide range of techniques to examine the experience of all metropolitan area economies from 1978-2014. They then look closely at six...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801451698
• ISBN13: 9780801451690
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher