Abstract
A criticism of the potential use of the enterprise zone concept in the U.S. is presented. Following from the new inter national division of labor and its exploita tion by capitalist economies, an analysis of the distributional impacts of platform economies is outlined. Enterprise zones appear to be a deleterious policy for the U.S for three reasons: (1) wages in the U.S cannot be cut so low so that workers could compete with their counterparts in Third World economies; (2) they are part of the problem of economies in industrial nations, i.e., they are a planned means by which the costs of production can be reduced; and (3), there will be social and political resistance to substantial reduc tions in wages, legal protection, and bla tant control by outsiders.
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