Economic Roundtable
Post Cold War Frontiers: Defense Downsizing and Conversion in Los Angeles
1996, 124pp.
By: MICHAEL ODEN AND ANN MARKUSEN, PROJECT ON REGIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, RUGTERS UNIVERSITY; DANIEL FLAMING AND MARK DRAYSE, ECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE
Chapter Headings:
- Executive Summary
- Introduction: A Los Angeles Wake Up Call
- The Los Angeles Economy and the Post Cold War Shock
- The Defense Giants: Disparate Strategies, Differential Results
- Small and Medium Enterprises, Start-ups and Spin-offs
- Displaced Defense Workers and the Regional Labor Market
- Regional Diversification and Economic Development
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
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