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Brain Magnet – Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

Autor Alex Cummings
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Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolinäs Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today¿s urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of inequality.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231184915
ISBN-10: 0231184913
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism


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Alex Sayf Cummings

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Preface: RTP Donuts
Introduction: From Textiles and Tobacco to the City of Ideas
1. Imagining the Triangle: The Unlikely Origins of the Creative City in the Cold War South
2. ¿Not a Second Ruhr¿: Building a Postindustrial Economy in the 1960s
3. Welcome to Parkwood: Newcomers Find Their Way in the Emerging Triangle
Interlude: Sweet Gums, Traffic Jams, and Cilantro
4. ¿The Greatest Concentration of PhDs in the Country¿: The Idea Economy Comes of Age in the Triangle
5. Cary, SAS, and the Search for the Good Life
Interlude: The Islamic School in Parkwood
6. ¿We Think a Lot¿: The Triangle in the Age of Gentrification
Epilogue: The Figure of the Knowledge Worker
Notes
Index

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Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today’s urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of inequality.