The Community Economic Development Movement - Law, Business, and the New Social Policy

"A good overview of the intellectual roots and current policy context for the growing movement to rebuild this country's communities."--Martin Eakes, C.E.O., Self Help Credit Union

List of contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Background: The Turn to Community-Based Organizations in Social Policy

3. Three Logics of Community Action

4. The Community as Beneficiary of Economic Development

5. The Community as Agent of Economic Development

6. Constrained Property: Rights as Anchors

7. Induced Mobilization

8. Institutional Hybridization

9. The Limits of CED

Index

About the author

William H. Simon

Summary

A study of the evolution of the Community Economic Development movement, paying particular attention to the institutional and legal mechanisms it utilises.

Product details

• Authors: Simon, William H Simon, William H. Simon
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2002
• EAN: 9780822328049
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2804-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: 2 tables, 3 figures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Soziale und ethische Themen, Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer