LEADER 02720nam 22005894a 450 001 9910777959103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0576-7 010 $a0-8078-8874-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764480 035 $a(EBL)454842 035 $a(OCoLC)407906984 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212217 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196134 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212217 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10137108 035 $a(PQKB)11460129 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000243992 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28077 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454842 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310789 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929314 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454842 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764480 100 $a20080303d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNorth Carolina in the connected age$b[electronic resource] $echallenges and opportunities in a globalizing economy /$fMichael L. Walden 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1533-9 311 $a0-8078-3221-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-318) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aAt 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 606 $aIndustries$zNorth Carolina 606 $aGlobalization$zNorth Carolina 615 0$aIndustries 615 0$aGlobalization 676 $a330.9756 700 $aWalden$b M. L$g(Michael Leonard),$f1951-$0121745 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777959103321 996 $aNorth Carolina in the connected age$93761785 997 $aUNINA