Brass cities : Innovation policy and local economic transformation

How have some former industrial cities become hubs for high-wage jobs while others continue to grapple with economic stagnation? This dissertation aims to show how government interventions have shaped U.S. cities' paths to income and employment growth. In the 1980s, nearly every state government in the U.S. began investing in innovation policies aimed at diversifying local economies and stimulating the growth of high-technology industries. Three political obstacles short-term electoral incentives, industry capture, and barriers to collective action - have made the implementation of these policies difficult. Case studies of U.S. cities illustrate how state innovation policies have the potential to overcome these obstacles and transform local economies adapting to the decline of manufacturing.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Armstrong, Ben(Ben David)(Scientist in political science)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Suzanne Berger.

• Political Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122404

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122404