ED Reading List for Beginners

Books and Reports

Blakely, Edward J, and Ted K Bradshaw, Planning Local Economic Development (Sage Publications Inc., 2002)

Bingham, Richard D, Mier, Robert, Theories of Local Economic Development (Sage Publications Inc., 1993).

Cohen-Rosenthal, Edward, Musnikow, Judy, Eco-Industry Strategies (Greenleaf Publishing,
2003).

Corporation for Enterprise Development, 2004 Development Report for the States
Washington, DC Online Document Viewable at: http://www.cfed.org/focus.m?parentid=31&siteid=1099&id=1099

Harper, David, A., Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, (Routledge, UK, 2003).

Iannone. Donald, T., Creating Leadership Advantage for Economic Development, (Amazon.com Publishing, forthcoming 2006). Also available at: http://www.don-iannone.com.

Iannone, Donald, and McKee, Daryl, Marketing Communities in the Information Age, (American Economic Development Council, Chicago, Illinois, 1999.) Available at: http://www.iedconline.org.

Poole, Kenneth E., Erickcek, George A., Iannone, Donald T., McCrea, Nancy, Salem, Pofen
Evaluating Business Development Incentives, (National Association of State Development Agencies (NASDA), Washington, DC, 1999).

Schaeffer, Peter V, and Loveridge, Scott, Small Town and Rural Economic Development (Praeger/Greenwood, 2000)
Seidman, Karl F, Economic Development Finance , (Sage Publications Inc., 2004).

Articles

Jun Koo, “How to Analyze the Regional Economy With Occupation Data,” Economic Development Quarterly, 2005 19: 356-372.

Dan Immergluck, “Building Power, Losing Power: The Rise and Fall of a Prominent Community Economic Development Coalition”, Economic Development Quarterly, 2005 19: 211-224.

Michael J. Mondello and Patrick Rishe, “Comparative Economic Impact Analyses: Differences Across Cities, Events, and Demographics”, Economic Development Quarterly, 2004 18: 331-342.

Maryann P. Feldman and Johanna L. Francis, “Homegrown Solutions: Fostering Cluster Formation”, Economic Development Quarterly, 2004 18: 127-137.

Joseph Cortright and Heike Mayer, “Increasingly Rank: the Use and Misuse of Rankings in Economic Development”, Economic Development Quarterly, 2004 18: 34-39.

John M. McGrath and Ronald Vickroy, “A Research Approach for Tracking Local Economic Conditions in Small-Town America”, Economic Development Quarterly, 2003 17: 255-263.