North Carolina beyond the Connected Age (eBook)

The Tar Heel State in 2050

Michael L. Walden (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
200 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3573-6 (ISBN)

Infos

For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state's people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change resulted from the information and technology revolution, which connected the state more fully to the country and the world. But we are now moving beyond the connected age, argues Michael L. Walden, to a new era of living, production, and work, and North Carolina faces not only unanswered questions about the past but also new challenges and opportunities visible on the horizon. What will these new transformations mean for the state's people, places, and prosperity?In this book, Walden lays out these looming economic issues and offers predictions of future trends as well as multiple policy options for taxation, infrastructure, and environmental issues. While the future cannot be perfectly predicted, Walden's expert analysis is mandatory reading for policy makers, business leaders, and everyday people seeking to prepare for upcoming changes in North Carolina's economy.

Autor

Michael L. Walden is the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University and author of North Carolina in the Connected Age.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 22 figs., 6 maps, 16 tables, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Aging Population • College costs • Economic Transformation • education and economic development • employment projections • Environmental Costs • generational politics • geographic disparities • improving college education • improving K-12 education • income inequality • in-migration • millennial politics • North Carolina in 2050 • Population projections • Renewable Fuels • rural economic development • state public spending • state tax systems • Technological Unemployment • the future economy • the future of work • the world in 2050 • urbanization
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3573-9 / 1469635739
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3573-6 / 9781469635736