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Title:

DEBT WISH
ENTREPRENEURIAL CITIES, U.S.FEDERALISM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

By:

Alberta M. Sbragia

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0822955997

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9780822955993

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS

Pub. date:

25 April, 1996

Edition:

New ed.

Series:

Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies

Pages:

308

Description:

This work explores how entrepreneurial activity developed in the USA, and how federal and state politics facilitated or limited it. It analyses the implications of cities creating innovative, quasi-governments to circumvent state control over city finances.

Synopsis:

Albert Sbragia considers American urban government as an investor whether for building infrastructure or supporting economic development. Over time, such investment has become disconnected from the normal political and administrative processes of local policymaking through the use of special public spending authorities like water and sewer commissions and port, turnpike, and public power authorities.Sbragia explores how this entrepreneurial activity developed and how federal and state policies facilitated or limited it. She also analyzes the implications of cities creating innovative, special-purpose quasi-governments to circumvent and dilute state control over city finances, diluting their own authority in the process."

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