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Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2005

Charles Ellison
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati

Extract

Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development. By Steven P. Erie. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. 336p. $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.

Perhaps the dominant political rhetoric of our time is that which divides society into a self-correcting market and a government, one is the necessary and primary cause of our social ills. Government programs designed to mitigate or solve problems, we are told, unfailingly make the target problem worse and create additional, unforeseen problems. Better to leave well enough alone, even if later we lack the means to travel from our driveway to a workplace nearly one hour away on a good day.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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