Speaking falsehoods to power: States' misguided use of "cost-of-doing-business" studies in economic development policy

Review of Regional Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-43

  Luger, Michael I ^a   Bae, Suho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business recruitment; Cost of doing business; Retention policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349156713     PISSN: 0048749X     EISSN: 15530892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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