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Blog Separating Plausibility from Fantasy: the Conservative Approach to Economic Impact Analysis By Tim Shea Special Contributor It’s a story that makes headlines with depressing frequency.…AEJuly 18, 2017
Blog A Dream Denied In the race to attract the best and brightest innovators from around the world, the…AEJuly 12, 2017
Blog The Times They are a Changin’: a Populist America in a 21st Century World By Tim Shea Special Contributor For those of you (perhaps wisely) avoiding the news, last…AEJuly 11, 2017
Blog Developing Places: One of the Many Hats for an Economic Developer By Nicholas Samuel Director of Research One of the key tasks of an economic…AEJuly 6, 2017
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