The Urban Economy

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Financing the Metropolis

Struggling to keep their heads above water, cities are trying every means from increased real-estate taxes to off-track betting to squeeze all the dollars they can. In FINANCING THE METROPOLIS, noted economists and urbanologists team up to examine this ailing patient. They decide, surprisingly, that the outlook is not so hopeless as many believe. Among prognoses: "Local governments are not broke; they just think they are;" and "The current fiscal crisis of our cities is a political problem, not an economic one." A lengthy bibliography is appended.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68646/2/10.1177_109114217300100107.pd

University centers for the study of public policy: Organizational viability

The central problems of creating and maintaining a university center for the study of public policy stem from the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the policy design process and the tensions in academic circles between “pure” and “applied” research.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45446/1/11077_2005_Article_BF01404904.pd

On the Occasion of his Inauguration as the Ninth President of Georgia Institute of Technology

This document is a draft version of John Patrick Crecine's inaugural address as the ninth president of the Georgia Institute of Technology

A Computer Simulation Model of Municipal Resource Allocation

This report contains a description of a particular kind of governmental decision making “ the decisional behavior connected with municipal operating budgets. The theory is stated in the language of a computer program. The model of governmental problem solving is applied to the cities of Cleveland, Detroit, and Pittsburgh. The Model, with appropriate parameter estimates, is used to reproduce operating budget decisions in the three cities* In addition various naive models are tested and then compared with our decision Model (Section 6). Analysis of model residuals (Section 7) and a sensitivity analysis of some model parameters (Section 10) • is used to study "unprogrammed" aspects of budgetary behavior. The formal Model (presented in Section 4) is also related to various theories of individual and organizational behavior in Section 9. The behavioral antecedents of the model are discussed in Section 5* Implications o r the study for political research are touched on in Section 11 and our positive model forms the basis for a normative discussion of municipal resource allocation in Section 12.</p