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Assessing The Performance Of Place-Based Economic Development Incentives: What’S The Word On The Street?, Matthew Rossman

Faculty Publications

Although politically popular, place-based economic development incentives have had limited success and proven difficult to evaluate. Unlike most legal scholarship on this topic, this article takes a qualitative approach in examining them. It studies the performance of four distinct types of development incentives intended to alleviate economic distress, using insight gathered from interviews with business owners, development professionals, and community members in six adjoining neighborhoods, where past efforts at revitalization have failed despite locational advantages.

The challenges faced by economically distressed places are typically varied and complex. The qualitative sampling techniques employed in this article’s research generated nuanced, ‘on the …

Why Now Is The Time To Resolve The Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute, Garret Bowman

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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The Politics Of Economic Development Takings, Ilya Somin

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Regional Economies And The Constitutional Imperative Of Eminent Domain, Steven S. Kaufman

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Tax Incentives For Economic Development: Personal (And Pessimistic) Reflections, Edward A. Zelinsky

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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The Green Costs Of Kelo: Economic Development Takings And Environmental Protection, Jonathan H. Adler

Faculty Publications

This Article is the first academic paper to systematically consider the environmental impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London and of economic development condemnations more generally. Kelo upheld economic development takings - condemnations that transfer property from one private owner to another solely on the ground that doing so might improve the local economy or increase tax revenue. The decision stands in sharp contrast to the Michigan Supreme Court's ruling in County of Wayne v. Hathcock, which forbade the use of eminent domain for economic development.

Part I briefly explains the rationales of the …

Intellectual Property Rights And Economic Development, By Keith Maskus, Robert E. Evenson

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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Intellectual Property Rights And Economic Development, Keith E. Maskus

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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