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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455188703321

Autore

Walden M. L (Michael Leonard), <1951->

Titolo

North Carolina in the connected age [[electronic resource] ] : challenges and opportunities in a globalizing economy / / Michael L. Walden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008

ISBN

1-4696-0576-7

0-8078-8874-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

330.9756

Soggetti

Industries - North Carolina

Globalization - North Carolina

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The national context : the creation of the connected age -- The macroeconomics of change : forces transforming North Carolina's economy -- The microeconomics of change : the remaking of North Carolina's industries -- Impacts on people -- Impacts on places -- Impacts on policies -- North Carolina's future in the connected age.

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future. Today we are living in a technologically connected age that has completely transformed the North Carolina economy, Walden explains. Once driven by tobacco, textiles, and furniture, the North Carolina economy now thrives on technology, pharmaceuticals, finance, food processing, and the manufacture of vehicle p