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Afterword: Contextualized Comparison in Local and Regional Economic Development: Are United States Perspectives and Approaches Distinctive?

Afterword: Contextualized Comparison in Local and Regional Economic Development: Are United... Regional Studies, Vol. 44.2, pp. 229 – 233, March 2010 Afterword: Contextualized Comparison in Local and Regional Economic Development: Are United States Perspectives and Approaches Distinctive? SUSAN CHRISTOPHERSON Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 106 W. Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-6701, USA. Email: Smc23@cornell.edu (Received July 2009: in revised form October 2009) This special issue of Regional Studies takes on a daunting reshaping the global and national space economies, task: that of shedding light on local and regional econ- including the rising role of financial markets (financiali- omic development (LRED) in the United States. As zation), trade liberalization, deregulation, and devolu- Valler and Wood (this issue) describe, the way in tion, were rolled into the concept of ‘globalization’ which local and regional development is thought and shoved off the theoretical table. Because all these about and theorized differs between the United States processes have consequences for the spatial location of and the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. economic activities and, hence, for local and regional They, rightly, I believe, suggest that LRED theory in economic development, a theoretical grip on how the the United States is impoverished by an inadequate con- broader space economy is being reshaped http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Regional Studies Taylor & Francis

Afterword: Contextualized Comparison in Local and Regional Economic Development: Are United States Perspectives and Approaches Distinctive?

Christopherson, Susan
Regional Studies , Volume 44 (2): 5 – Mar 1, 2010
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Regional Studies, Vol. 44.2, pp. 229 – 233, March 2010 Afterword: Contextualized Comparison in Local and Regional Economic Development: Are United States Perspectives and Approaches Distinctive? SUSAN CHRISTOPHERSON Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 106 W. Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-6701, USA. Email: Smc23@cornell.edu (Received July 2009: in revised form October 2009) This special issue of Regional Studies takes on a daunting reshaping the global and national space economies, task: that of shedding light on local and regional econ- including the rising role of financial markets (financiali- omic development (LRED) in the United States. As zation), trade liberalization, deregulation, and devolu- Valler and Wood (this issue) describe, the way in tion, were rolled into the concept of ‘globalization’ which local and regional development is thought and shoved off the theoretical table. Because all these about and theorized differs between the United States processes have consequences for the spatial location of and the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. economic activities and, hence, for local and regional They, rightly, I believe, suggest that LRED theory in economic development, a theoretical grip on how the the United States is impoverished by an inadequate con- broader space economy is being reshaped

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