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

• Autore: Walden M. L (Michael Leonard), <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.9756
• Soggetto topico: Industries - North Carolina; Globalization - North Carolina
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: North Carolina in the connected age
• ISBN: 1-4696-0576-7; 0-8078-8874-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823653203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II