The Case for Rural America

J. Tom Mueller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2025
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-9151-0 (ISBN)

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Rural America is at a crossroads: either it will manage to sustain itself long-term, or—as current trends suggest—it will continue to disappear through depopulation and urbanization. There have been calls for economic redevelopment, but even with these proposals, J. Tom Mueller argues that policymakers, politicians, and academics rarely make a clear case for why rural America matters and is worth saving in the first place. In this provocative book, Mueller meets these issues head-on by presenting a critique of conventional economic development efforts while also articulating why rural America is worthy of preservation.

The Case for Rural America outlines the actions necessary to save our rural places and the people who live there. By suggesting approaches that would benefit urban populations as well as rural—such as establishing a universal basic income and implementing single-payer healthcare—Mueller offers a nuanced understanding of the complex needs of rural America while providing solutions that would benefit us all.

J. Tom Mueller is assistant professor of population health and director of the Kansas Center for Rural Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Rural Studies Series
Zusatzinfo	2 maps, 1 table - 1 Tables, unspecified - 2 Maps
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	25 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-4696-9151-5 / 1469691515
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-9151-0 / 9781469691510
Zustand	Neuware