While Waiting for Rain : Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change
What might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. After showing why that economy provides...
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University of Michigan Press
2022
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