1st Edition

The Future of Local Economic Development

Edited By Ines Newman Copyright 2010
120 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

This book looks at the future role of local economic development. Once New Labour came to power in 1997, they sought a third way between the new right agenda of Thatcherism with its attempts to reduce the role of the local state and foster a free market and the left’s attempts to take more control over the local economy in the interest of workers. In July 2007, Gordon Brown’s government... Read more

Preface: Local Economic Development in the Credit Crunch  Ines Newman  VIEWPOINT  1. Regions, Economies and Planning in England after the Sub-national Review  Tim Marshall  2. The Future of Economic Development after the Sub-national Review  Greg Clark  FEATURES  3. Introduction: The Future of Local Economic Development  Ines Newman  4. Labouring and Learning towards Competitiveness: The Future of Local Labour Markets after Harker, Leitch and Freud  Alex Nunn and Steve Johnson  5. The Soft Spaces of Local Economic Development  Graham Haughton and Phil Allmendinger  6. A New Policy for Britain’s Cities: Choices, Challenges, Contradictions  Ivan Turok  7. Reflexive Local and Regional Economic Development and International Policy Transfer  Graham Haughton and Rachel Naylor  IN PERSPECTIVE  8. Reflections of a Torontonian in Sheffield  Ian Bromley  9. Sub-regional Economic Development – Consolidation and Culture  John Berry  10. Building an Economic Development and Regeneration Future for Lincolnshire County Council  Ivan Annibal  11. A Personal View on How the Role of the RDA Regeneration Practitioner will Change as a Result of SNR  Tom Warburton

Biography

Ines Newman is Principal Research Fellow at the Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.