Federal, state and local governments have spent literally hundreds of billions of dollars in the past two decades to solve the nation's urban problems. Yet these problems are now far worse than when these efforts began. It is merely to state the obvious to say that these efforts, taken...

The purpose ofthis paper isto examine some ofthe salient features of the concept of enterprise zones, especially those aspects included intheadministration'splan,inanefforttopredicttheactualoutcome of this policy proposal if it is enacted and implemented. Even though the concept of enterprise...

Recently, a libertarian journal published a hard-hitting, if predict- able, broadside of ideological purity aimed at the enterprise zone concept. All the usual arguments were there. If economic freedom is so marvelous, why ration it to a few inner-city zones? Why should a firm in the South Bronx...

The purpose ofthis paper isto examine some ofthe salient features of the concept of enterprise zones, especially those aspects included intheadministration'splan,inanefforttopredicttheactualoutcome of this policy proposal if it is enacted and implemented. Even though the concept of enterprise...