While Waiting for Rain - 9780472075614

Name: While Waiting for Rain - 9780472075614
Brand: The University of Michigan Press

The University of Michigan Press

While Waiting for RainCommunity, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change\nAuthor(s): John Henry Schlegel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472075614, 978-0472075614\nSynopsis\nWhat might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. After showing why that economy provides an implausible standardmade possible by the lack of economic competition from the European and Asian countries, winners or losers, touched by the warJohn Henry Schlegel attempts to answer the question of what to do.\n\nWhile Waiting for Rain first examines the economic history of the United States as well as that of Buffalo, New York: an appropriate stand-in for any city that may have seen its economy start to fall apart.