#4 - Jackson on Regional Economies

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  • Song Name: Lg2S-04-Jackson_on_Regional_Economies
  • Artist: AK5A
  • Album: Let's go to Space
  • Year: 2014

Don Jackson talks with AK5A about regional economic development, its strategies and problems as well as a brief discussion the history of about automation.

Don is a Research Manager at a small economic development firm in Austin, Texas, he holds TWO masters degrees from the the University of Texas in Community and Regional Planning and Sustainable Design.

Works Cited:

- Alperovitz, Gar. Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution (YouTube, 2013)(Video).
- Alperovitz, Gar. What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution. (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013).
- Imbroscio, David. Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy.(Cornell University Press, 2010).
- Teresa Lynch and Adam Kamins, “Creating Equity: Does Regionalism Have an Answer for Urban Poverty? Can It?”. (Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, 2012)(PDF).

Automation/Record-Replay Machine:

- Nobel, David. Forces of Production. (Knopf, 1984).

Organizational Links:

- Community-Wealth.org
- Institute for Local Self Reliance