Community Economics

Ron Shaffer is an Emeritus Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension. Steve Deller is a Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension. Dave Marcouiller is a Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension.

• Foreword. Preface..Section I: Community Economic Development Theory.1. Defining Community Economic Development.2. Growth Theory.3. Space and Community Economics.4. Concepts of Community Markets..Section II: Community Factor Markets.5. Land Markets.6. Labor Markets.7. Financial Capital Markets.8. Technology and Innovation.9. Nonmarket Goods and Services: Amenities.10. Local Government and Public Goods..Section III: Institutions and the Art of Community Economics.11. Institutions and Society.12. Policy Modeling and Decision-Making.13. The Practice of Community Economic Development..Section IV: Tools of Community Economics.14. Descriptive Tools of Community Economic Analysis.15. Inferential Tools of Community Economic Analysis: fixed-Price Models.16. Inferential Tools of Community Economic Analysis: Price: Endogenous Models.17. Looking to the Future.References.Index.

"This edition succeeds...in ways very few other attempts have achieved. Concepts are applied, models explained, principles are richly explicated, and themes are well developed, all in a fashion that really draws economic theory and literature into their regional and community contexts. Even those with only a cursory exposure to the economic theory of local development will find sections of the book highly readable and extremely useful.""Not unlike the original edition, Community Economics will find a place in the classroom...for it is, simply put, as good grounding in economic theory placed in a practical context as any I have read." Mark B. Lapping, University of Southern Maine in Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 46, No.4, 2006