TY - BOOK ID - 30952841 TI - The rise and fall of urban economies : lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles AU - Storper, Michael AU - Kemeny, Thomas AU - Makarem, Naji Philip AU - Osman, Taner PY - 2015 SN - 9780804796026 0804796025 0804789401 1503600661 9780804789400 PB - Stanford, Calif. Stanford Business Books DB - UniCat KW - E-books KW - Economic development KW - San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) KW - Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) KW - Economic conditions. KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) KW - San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) KW - San Francisco Region (Calif.) KW - Economic geography KW - Los Angeles [California] KW - San Francisco [California] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30952841 AB - Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively farther behind its neighbour to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth - luck, immigration, local economic policies, and the pool of skilled labour - do not account for the contrast between the two cities and their fates. So what does? This book challenges many of the conventional notions about economic development and sheds new light on its workings. ER -