Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development

Tax Increment Financing and Economic DevelopmentExamines the many issues raised by TIF, the most widely used tool of local economic and community development. This book brings together leading experts to examine the evolving nature of tax increment financing (TIF), the most widely used tool of local economic and community development. Originally designed as an innovative approach to the redevelopment of blighted areas, it has become a more general purpose tool of economic and community development.

exploring responses from the Industrial Revolution to today

and it seeks out – in a series of contextualising experiments – contexts which are text-specific

the ability of institutional theory to explain political and social events

and feminist theory to find new ways of thinking about physique culture and the female body

This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement

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This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British public’s sense of international responsibility

and cultural interaction

climate science

justifying a massive bureaucratic prison complex as scientific and civilized

to explain new developments in economic thinking and empirical research to a general audience

He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant-a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends