| Affiliation: | Peter B. Meyer is Professor of Urban Policy at the University of Louisville. He served as Director of the Local Economic Development Project at Penn State for eight years and has conducted economic development research in the US. and Great Britain for over a decade. His current research is on the factors affecting the efficiency of different types of local subsidies to businesses as economic development tools around the United States and in Western Europe.;David Fasenfest is on the faculty of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University. He has written extensively on local economic development and public policy, with recent articles appearing in the Urban Affairs Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, and Economic Development Quarterly. His current research examines community participation in economic development policy formation and the politics of race and class in setting local development agenda. |
