A Note on the Extent, Operation and Results of Enterprise Zones in American States

Authors

  • R. Lawson Veasey
  • Hayward D. Horton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1986.7.0.60-73

Abstract

Since at least the early 1960s, redistributive politics and demand-side economics have formed the basis for most public programs attempting to deal with urban blight. The apparent lack of success of these policies has raised suggestions for new urban program-policies innovations based upon a different economic orientation. Enterprise Zones (EZs) are the supply-side economics alternative for dealing with urban blight. In this note, we: describe the nature of EZs and briefly their history; present reported cost-benefit effects of EZs as a result of a nationwide survey of state-administered EZ programs; discuss the variety of EZ programs across the states; and suggest the problems of administering the myriad different types of EZs among the states. Finally, we offer several questions posed by this study which will require further investigation regarding the overall impact of EZs on the subnational level.

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1987-01-01

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