LEADER 03545nam 2200493 450 001 9910585597503321 005 20220803091334.0 010 $a0-472-90297-0 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.12158309 035 $a(CKB)5680000000066830 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7072642 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7072642 035 $a(OCoLC)1337924888 035 $a(NjHacI)995680000000066830 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.12158309 035 $a(EXLCZ)995680000000066830 100 $a20220803d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhile waiting for rain $ecommunity, economy, and law in a time of change /$fJohn Henry Schlegel 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d[2022] 215 $a1 online resource (428 pages) 225 0 $aThe Sustainable History Monography Pilot 311 $a0-472-07561-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 360-371) and index. 330 3 $a"What might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. After showing why that economy provides an implausible standard--made possible by the lack of economic competition from the European and Asian countries, winners or losers, touched by the war--John Henry Schlegel attempts to answer the question of what to do. While Waiting for Rain first examines the economic history of the United States as well as that of Buffalo, New York: an appropriate stand-in for any city that may have seen its economy start to fall apart in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. It makes clear that neither Buffalo nor the United States as a whole has had an economy in the sense of "a persistent market structure that is the fusion of an understanding of economic life with the patterns of behavior within the economic, political, and social institutions that enact that understanding" since both economies collapsed. Next, this book builds a plausible theory of how economic growth might take place by examining the work of the famous urbanist, Jane Jacobs, especially her book Cities and the Wealth of Nations. Her work, like that of many others, emphasizes the importance of innovation for economic growth, but is singular in its insistence that such innovation has to come from local resources. It can neither be bought nor given, even by well-intentioned political actors. As a result Americans generally, as well as locally, are like farmers in the midst of a drought, left to review their resources and wait. Finally, it returns to both the local Buffalo and the national economies to consider what these political units might plausibly do while waiting for an economy to emerge." 606 $aCompetition$xTechnological innovations$zUnited States$y20th century 606 $aPersonal property$zUnited States$vCases 607 $aBuffalo (N.Y.)$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 615 0$aCompetition$xTechnological innovations 615 0$aPersonal property 676 $a330.9 700 $aSchlegel$b John Henry$0728242 712 02$aSustainable History Monograph Pilot. 801 0$bEYM 801 1$bEYM 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910585597503321 996 $aWhile Waiting for Rain$92911086 997 $aUNINA