Community Economic Development in the United States: The Cdfi Industry and America's Distressed Communities

AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter One: Market Failure and the Possibilities of Community DevelopmentChapter Two: (Re)Discovering Poverty and Economic Underdevelopment: Michael Harrington's The Other America: Poverty in the United StatesChapter Three: The CDFI Industry: Its Origins and DevelopmentChapter Four: Tax Expenditures and Social PolicyChapter Five: Community Development Investment in the United StatesChapter Six: The Unequal Economy and the Community Development Movement


Author: James L. Greer, Oscar Gonzales
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/29/2016
Pages: 213
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.26w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781137497901

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2017

About the Author
James L. Greer is an independent scholar with a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago, USA. His research interests include, along with American community economic development, early New Deal housing and banking policies, home mortgage redlining, and the patterning of economic growth in the American metropolitan areas.
Oscar Gonzales is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Maryland, USA. He holds a BA and MA from Yale University, USA. His research focuses on economic and community development in low-income communities. Previously, he held positions at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Congressional Research Service.