North Carolina in the connected age : challenges and opportunities in a globalizing economy / Michael L. Walden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walden, Michael L. (Michael Leonard), 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries--North Carolina.

Industries.

Globalization--North Carolina.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future. Today we are living in a technologically connected age that has completely transformed the North Carolina economy, Walden explains. Once driven by tobacco, textiles, and furniture, the North Carolina economy now thrives on technology, pharmaceuticals, finance, food processing, and the manufacture of vehicle p

Contents:

The national context : the creation of the connected age

The macroeconomics of change : forces transforming North Carolina's economy

The microeconomics of change : the remaking of North Carolina's industries

Impacts on people

Impacts on places

Impacts on policies

North Carolina's future in the connected age.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-318) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908814-4-1

979-88-9313-259-5

1-4696-0576-7

0-8078-8874-5

OCLC:

407906984