Abstract
This article is a review of four economic development textbooks: John P Blair's Local Economic Development: Analysis and Practice, John Levy's Economic Development Programs for Cities, Counties, and Towns, EdwardBlakely's Planning Local Economic Development, and Richard D. Bingham's and Robert Mier's Theories of Local Economic Development: Perspectives From Across the Disciplines. The author reviews each of these works in terms of its strengths and weaknesses as a learning tool.
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