Confessions of a Serial Tax Abater
New times and new realities command change and adaptation. The Journal of Applied Research in Economic Development is no exception. With the beginning of the New Year, Volume 8, we introduced our latest and greatest version of the Journal. The NEW Journal is exclusively online. The core of the new Journal will be two reviews, published each month, under the byline “In the Trenches”. “In the Trenches” is our “above the fold” cornerstone around which the reviews will focus, reflecting our central purpose of translating academic and think tank research into the language of local economic directors in the field. We invite your feedback and contributions.
The Ugly
Any reader of the articles in “The Ugly” knows pretty quickly where their authors stand on tax abatement and incentives. If the title of the articles does not suggest a conclusion, the opening paragraph of Alan Peters & Peter Fisher’s, The Failures of Economic Development Incentives”, Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol.70, No 1, […]
The Bad
In my professional life the two sources of information regarding tax abatement effectiveness seemed to issue from either Think Tanks/Institutes whose membership and revenue base was drawn from labor unions, or from academia. Conversely, in response, practitioners of local economic development, one after another, would counter any criticisms and outrage from academia or the Institutes […]
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About the Editor
Ron Coan
PH D.
Ron is the Editor for the Journal of Applied Research in Economic Development (C2ER). He is also currently a Senior Fellow, Center For Regional Economic Competitiveness and former Adjunct at Johns Hopkins, Carey School of Business, The Edward St John Real Estate Program teaching graduate courses in Economic Development.