Response: Economic development as a profession: A response to Visser and Wright

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-27

  Blakely, Edward J ^a  

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EID: 0030489496     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089124249601000103     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. The literature on professionalism is very well developed, going back to Max Weber. The best and most complete work is Howard Vollmer and Donald Mills, Professionalization (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1966).
2. James A. Visser and Bradley E. Wright, "Professional Education in Economic Development: Conflicting Expectations for College Programs in the Great Lakes Region," Economic Development Quarterly 10 (1996) 3-20.
3. John Levy, "What Local Economic Developers Actually Do," Journal of the American Planning Association 56 (spring 1990): 153-60.
4. Herbert J. Rubin, quoting an interviewee in "Shoot Anything That Flies; Claim Anything That Falls: Conversations with Economic Development Practitioners," Economic Development Quarterly 2 (1988): 236-51.
5. Edward J. Blakely, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994).
6. Ibid., p. 315.
7. Visser and Wright, "Professional Education in Economic Development," p. 13.
8. Rubin, "Shoot Anything That Flies," p. 237.
9. Ibid., p. 243.