Coping with Adversity

Harold Wolman is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Research Professor, George Washington Institute of Public Policy, The George Washington University. He is the author of The Politics of Housing and coauthor of Urban Politics and Policy. Howard Wial is the former Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is coauthor of New Rules for a New Economy, also from Cornell, and coeditor of Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects. Travis St. Clair is assistant professor at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. Edward Hill is Professor of Public Affairs and City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University. He was editor of Economic Development Quarterly and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Shocks and Regional Economic Resilience2. Chronic Distress and Regional Economic Resilience3. Regions That Lacked Resilience4. Resilient Regions5. Assessing the Effect of Resilience Policies Directed toward Business and Individuals6. Assessing the Effect of Reslience Policies Directed toward Public Goods, Institutions, and LeadershipConclusionAppendicesNotesReferencesIndex

These excellent academic researchers from George Washington, New York, and Ohio State Univ. and the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago explore the critical question of why some metropolitan areas deal with economic adversity better than others.(Choice) One of this year's most important books on economic development.... Coping with Adversity offers an opportunity for economic developers to assess the factors affecting the resiliency of their region's economy. In a world where we are continuously captivated by the next big thing and quick to celebrate the groundbreaking of stadiums or factories as transformational, the findings of this book are humbling.(State Science and Technology Institute) These findings should provoke thought, but the case studies serve to debunk (although the authors do not put it this way) many economic development cliches.(Planning Magazine) An ambitious and sophisticated application of the concept of resilience to regional economic development.(Journal of Urban Affairs)