Ten-gallon economy
Subtitle: sizing up economic growth in Texas
By: edited by Pia M. Orrenius, Jesús Cañas, Michael Weiss
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137530165
Subjects: Commerce; Economic policy; Labor market; Economic development; Banks and banking; Texas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tipping our hats to the ten-gallon economy / Pia M. Orrenius, Jesús Cañas and Michael Weiss; title: Public policy and business climate; title: Increasing jobs and income from work : the role and limitations of public policy / David Neumark; title: Why Texas grows faster : the role of smaller government / Jason Saving; title: The shortcomings of the Texas margin tax / Alan D. Viard; title: Human capital and labor markets; title: Texas' education challenge : a demographic dividend or bust? / Marta Tienda; title: Oil boom lowers human capital investment in Texas / Anil Kumar; title: Employment growth and labor market polarization in the U.S. and Texas / Melissa LoPalo and Pia M. Orrenius; title: Industry and exports; title: Texas real estate : from the 1980s oil bust to the shale oil boom / John V. Duca, Michael Weiss and Elizabeth Organ; title: The evolution of Texas banking / Kory Killgo and Kenneth J. Robinson; title: The impact of changing energy prices on the Texas economy / Mine K. Yücel, Michael Plante, Amy Jordan and Nicole Lake; title: Texas comparative advantage and manufacturing exports / Jesús Cañas, Luis Bernardo Torres Ruiz and Christina English; title: Border and economic development; title: So close to Mexico : economic spillovers along the Texas-Mexico border / Roberto Coronado, Marycruz De León and Eduardo Saucedo; title: Border economic recovery lags rest of state / Keith R. Phillips and Christopher Slijk; title: Las colonias along the Texas-Mexico border / Jordana Barton, Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Emily Ryder Perlmeter and Raquel R. Márquez.