aaaTable of Themes, Sub-Themes and Modules
Welcome
AS THE TWIG IS BENT, SO GROWS THE TREE
America’s First Modern Economic Developer: George Washington
Washington Digs a Canal (Patowmack or Potomac Canal) To Open Up the Trans-Appalachian West
Washington as Venture Capitalist: the Steamboat
Part I: What Did the Early Republic Inherit from the Past
The Birth of American ED (1774-1800): Colonial Migrations and Policy Systems, Revolutionary War and Articles of Confederation, the Formation of and Federalist Tribe in Power
Chapter 1: Revolutionary War-Articles of Confederation Philadelphia/Pennsylvania
Migration and Midlands Political Culture–Quakers and Germans TBA
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 2 Colonial/Articles of Confederation America and the Federalist Founding Fathers: (C) Under Construction: the Economic Bases Inherited from Colonial America–Philadelphia Colonial Seaport Develops a Capitalist Manufacturing/Commercial Economic Base (Gary Nash)
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 2 Colonial/Articles of Confederation America and the Federalist Founding Fathers: (D0) the Philadelphia Story: Pennsylvania a Radical Republic Philadelphia Natives Got Restless, Sam/John Adams Maneuver the Declaration of Independence,
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 2 Colonial/Articles of Confederation America and the Federalist Founding Fathers: (D1) the Philadelphia Story: Robert Morris & Tom Paine as Economic Developers Create Our First National Bank Robert Morris (Our Second Modern Economic Developer) & Tom Paine Creates Our First National Bank to Confront War Debts
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 2 Colonial/Articles of Confederation America and the Federalist Founding Fathers: (D2) Banks Nation-building and Populism Morris’s Installs the Infrastructure of Capitalism (a Commercial Bank) and Triggers a Populist Push Back
Shays Rebellion: What is this Populism Thing and How Does it Relate to Economic Development?
Chapter 2: Colonial Period-Revolutionary War-Articles of Confederation Virginia
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Colonial/Articles of Confederation America and the Federalist Founding Fathers: (E) Virginia: Colonial to Revolutionary War Policy System & Early Republic Tidewater Political Culture
In Development
Chapter 3: Colonial Period-Revolutionary War-Articles of Confederation Massachusetts and New England
TBA
Chapter 4: Articles of Confederation: Think Tank for the Federalist Political Party
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Colonial/Articles of Confederation America and the Federalist Founding Fathers: (B) Continental Congress Sets Up Articles of Confederation–Our First National Policy System Grafted onto the Colonial Policy System
Introduction to ED-Related Political Culture and the Birth of American Populism
Chapter 5: Federalists in Power: Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison Attempt Nation-Building and Fracture the Federalist Tribe
Constructing a Policy System from Scratch: Where to Locate the Nation’s Capital
Hamilton Launches His Economic System (Public Credit): Cracks Appear in the Federalist Tribe Consensus
The National Bank: the Federalist Consensus Shatters
Hamilton’s Manufactures and Jefferson’s Innovation (Patent Acts)
George Washington as City-Builder
Part II:
The New World That Is The Early Republic
Foreword: What is this Two Ships Thing? Political Culture and American Economic Development
Chapter 6: the Union Expands: the Trans-Appalachia First Southwest States: Kentucky & Tennessee
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 4 Chapter One Model (A) Why States Differ? Tennessee/Kentucky Settlement & Statehood
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 4 Chapter One Model (A1) Insights into What Lies Ahead
Settlement-Migration
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Pre-1800 Settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee: (B) Dynamics & Realities Underlying Trans-Appalachian Western
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Pre-1800 Settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee: (C) Settlement Begins and Virginia Takes Over Kentucky: Daniel Boone the Economic Developer
Kentucky as a Virginia County
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Pre-1800 Settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee: (D) Nashville and Middle Tennessee: North Carolina Squats Over Tennessee–Name Change
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Pre-1800 Settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee: (E) Tennessee’s Land Grab, State of Franklin, and Pass the Buck to the Federal Government
Creating a State Policy System: Kentucky
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (G) Two Tidewater Policy System Diverge
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (H) Kentucky’s Drive to Statehood
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (I) Kentucky’s Two Constitutions
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (J) Kentucky’s Initial Policy System
Creating a State Policy System: Tennessee
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (K) Southwestern Territory: Blount’s Political Machine Fights Cherokee War
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (L) Tennessee Statehood and 1796 Constitution
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (M) Tennessee’s Initial Policy System
Chapter 7: the Virginia Dynasty (1800-1828)
Our First National Paradigm: “Internal Improvements” or Developmental Transportation Infrastructure Strategy, City/State-Building, and “Manufacturers”
Module 8: Janus-Headed MED: DTIS Connecting the Urban Dots
America’s First Primary EDO: the Public/Private State-Chartered Corporation
Overview of Pre-1837 Roads, Turnpikes, Canals, and Steamboat
Role of the National Government in pre-1828 Economic Development (Part I): the Tidewater Dynasty
DTIS, the Tidewater Democratic National Government, and Gallatin’s Plan
Role of the National Government in pre-1828 Economic Development (Part II): Henry Clay and the American System
Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal
The Erie Canal and the Take Off of New York City
Module 10: The 1837-44 Panic, Gift/Loan Clauses, and Say Hello to Railroads This has to be split up
Railroad Case Studies
Birth of Mainstream ED (MED) and Community Development (CD) in North, 1789 to the Civil War
A. Mainstream ED and the Hegemonic Big City Economic Base
What is Mainstream Economic Development?
Module 3 Hegemonic Industrial Big Cities: Birth of American State and Local MED
the Boston, Connecticut and Lowell Path to Manufacture
the Philadelphia and New York City Economic Base Develop
Intro to Northern/Midwestern Big Cities and Tools of MED (Tax Abatement and Eminent Domain)
B. Community Development in the North, 1789 Thru the Civil War
Overview of Community Development Wings
Philadelphia (Quaker) First Wing Community Development and the Philadelphia Machine
Module 4 Yankee-Puritan First Wing: the Brahmin Elect and Josiah Quincy
Module 5: CD’s Second Wing and New York City CD???? Gotham
Module 7: Unions in Early Republic: Their Failure as a Political Party Starts Here
Baltimore and the Pennsylvania Mainline
the Massachusetts/New England Crawl
Part III: Rise of the Cotton Belt and Deep South Political Culture
Southern Connect the Dots MED: There Ain’t No Dots–They’re Mountains
South Carolina Canals, Roads, and the Nation’s First Operating Railroad
South Carolina Tries to Be the “New York of the South”
Georgia Crosses the Appalachians and the Birth of Atlanta
Theme 4:
the Midwest
The Rise of the Midwest and South Central States: Clash of Cultures (Pittsburgh and Lexington)
Inward MED City-Building East of the Mississippi Midwest (Cincinnati) and South Central States (Tennessee)
? Ohio/Indiana/Michigan
Module 11: Lincoln & Douglas as Economic Developers: Illinois Railroad MED
Module 12: Illinois Central Railroad and the Birth of the MED Attraction Strategy
Chicago Creeps in on Anything But Little Cat’s Feet
Module 13: Midwest Big Cities–Minnesota: Railroad-Led Immigrant Attraction
Module 14: MED Railroad City-Building and the Railroad Corporation’s Business Plan
Theme 4:
Antebellum Southern Economic Development and the Rise of Andrew Jackson
Module 2–Mini-Series A: (1) Let’s Start with Southern Political Cultures: Tidewater and the Scots-Irish
Module 3–Mini-Series A: (2) Let’s Start with Southern Political Cultures: The Barbadian-South Carolina Deep South
Module 4–Mini-Series B: (1) The Cotton Belt as the Deep South’s Economic Base; Why Agriculture? Why Cotton?
Module 5–Mini-Series B: (2A) Cotton Belt Starts with Scots-Irish in Upland Counties of South Carolina
Module 6–Mini-series B (2B) Deep South Political Culture Integrated Into South Carolina and Georgia State Policy Systems
Module 7–Mini-Series B (2C) Cotton’s Profit Life-Cycle: Tough Times for Cotton Leads to Upcountry Industrialization
Module 8–Mini-Series B: (3) Growth of the Cotton Belt: Historical, Economic and Geographic Overview
Module 9–Mini-Series B: (4) Alabama the First Notch in the Cotton “Belt”: Divergent Cultures of ED
Andrew Jackson
Theme 6: Part II: Post-Civil War Southern Economic Development
Module 12: The War, Its Consequences, and the Reconstruction
Module 13: The South’s Divided Economic Development Mind and the Redeemer Policy System
Module 14–Mini-Series D: (1) The First “New South”
Module 15–Mini-Series D: (2) The Marshall Plan That Wasn’t: Compromise of 1877 and the Scott Plan–the South Get’s Shafted
Module 16–Mini-Series D: (3) The South Get’s “Railroaded” and Redeemer Gift and Loan Constitutional Clauses
Module 17–Mini-Series D: (4) The Rise of Birmingham: Louisville and National, City/Economic Base-Building an Industrial City, and Boston Money
Module 18: Knoxville, Tennessee: a Scots-Irish Highland City
Module 19: Atlanta, Chamber Politics to the 1890’s, the Southern Exposition Movement
Module 20: Southern Black Economic Development Strategies: Booker T. Washington, the Atlanta Compromise, and W.E.B. Du Bois Is Not Happy
Module 21: Charleston’s ED Copes with Populist Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman–and Mobile’s Challenge
Module 22: The Rise of North Carolina’s Textile Industry
Module 23: The Two Henry’s (Flager and Plant): City-Building in 19th Century Florida
Module 24: Not So Deep In the Heart of Dixie: the Emergence of Texan Southwest ED
Module 25: San Antonio, Houston, and the Early Development of Texan-Style ED
Southern Nineteenth Century Southern Economic Development
Theme 7:
The Gilded Age Northern Hegemonic Industrial Big City
the West?
Theme 1:
Our Conceptual Framework: the Chapter One Model
Theme 1: Module 1: Getting Started
Theme 1: Module 2: Eras (and Ages) of American Economic Development AND the Early Republic Era (1789-1870)
Theme 1: Module 3: “Big City” Industrial Hegemonic Classical Era (1870-1975)
Theme 1: Module 4: Transition Era (1975-2000) AND Intro to Contemporary Era (post-2000)
Theme 1: Module 5: What is this TWO SHIPS Thing? Political Culture and American State/Local ED
Theme 1: Module 6: What is this TWO SHIPS Thing? Quo Vadis MED, CD, and Political Cultures
Theme 1: Module 7: What is this TWO SHIPS Thing? Mainstream Economic Development (MED)
Theme 1: Module 8: What is this TWO SHIPS Thing? Wings of Community Development (CD)
Theme 1: Module 9: Overview of the Five CD Wings
Theme 1: Module 10: Mainstream ED (Janus-Headed MED): External and Inward MED
Theme 1: Early Republic/Antebellum External MED Strategies (Under Construction)
Theme 1: Module 10: The Stripped-Down Chapter One Conceptual Framework
Articles in 'Clusters and Regionalism'
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Silicon Valley and Route 128: The Camelots of Economic DevelopmentSilicon Valley and the Route 128 Massachusetts Miracle are a bit of reality and myth tossed together like a Caesar salad. In recent years, the Silicon Valley, in particular, has become a Camelot of sorts for economic developers–a place where the mythical king of technology, innovation and creativity ruled over the dominion of the knowledge-based economy. These magical geographies have personified the holy grail of economic development. What are the realities behind these legends? What lessons can we learn? |
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The New Geography of Jobs (Enrico Moretti)Enrico Moretti’s, The New Geography of Jobs (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2012). has been exceptionally well received by many of the economic development literari. Some commentators have described New Geography as the best economic development book of 2012. And if you don’t read New Geography, you would also miss reading the best, most readable explanation and defense of innovation, knowledge-based economics and their effects on the location of jobs in the United States. There is a lot going on in New Geography. You should read on because what lies below the thematic visible tip of New Geography and innovation economics is its frank and realistic understanding of what innovation economics can do and not do, and, perhaps more important, the linkage of innovation economics with American culture and society. |
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Collaborate, Collaborate: Dance to the Music!The awareness of regionalism has prospered greatly from its linkage and relationship to the clusters approach and cluster’s derivative approaches (innovation, knowledge-based economic development, and entrepreneur or start up). |
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