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001 2007005150
003 DLC
005 20111006083227.0
008 070212s2007 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007005150
020 $a9781934043387 (alk. paper)
020 $a1934043389 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHF5465.U64$bW354 2007
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100 1 $aHicks, Michael J.
245 14 $aThe local economic impact of Wal-Mart /$cMichael J. Hicks.
260 $aYoungstown, N.Y. :$bCambria Press,$cc2007.
300 $axxxii, 337 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-319) and indexes.
505 0 $aList of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- section I. The history and measurement of Wal-Mart -- 1. The chain store historically considered -- The war on the chains 1930-1941 -- The big-box format -- Federal law and the growth of chain stores -- 2. Measuring Wal-Mart -- Assessing Wal-Mart's impacts -- Economic theory and Wal-Mart's impact -- The income effect -- The clustering effect -- The labor productivity effect -- Measuring the impact of Wal-Mart -- How to interpret the statistics in this book -- 3. The diffusion of Wal-Mart's entrance -- Some economic analysis of how Wal-Mart locates stores -- Some new evidence of Wal-Mart's entrance behavior -- section II. The commercial impacts -- 4. The labor market impacts of Wal-Mart -- Modern estimates of Wal-Mart's impact -- Wal-Mart's labor market impacts in Indiana -- Wal-Mart distribution centers -- Summary -- 5. The impact of Wal-Mart on the market for goods and services -- Wal-Mart in Iowa: a rigorous examination of Stone's classic work -- The structure and spatial distribution of the retail industry -- Why value competition? -- Wal-Mart's effect on consumer prices -- 6. The impact of Wal-Mart on the aggregate economy -- The aggregate labor market -- Wal-Mart and manufacturing -- Wal-Mart's profits : a supplier comparison -- Wal-Mart and land value -- An examination of Washington and economic stability -- Summary -- section III. The fiscal impacts of Wal-Mart -- 7. Wal-Mart and local tax revenues -- The research on local taxes and Wal-Mart -- The dynamics of local sales tax collections : evidence from Maine -- 8. Wal-Mart and local expenditures -- Tax incentives and corporate welfare -- The effectiveness of tax incentives to Wal-Mart -- Wal-Mart and subsidies in California -- 9. Wal-Mart and antipoverty programs -- A discussion of antipoverty programs -- Wal-Mart's affect on antipoverty transfers -- Some new analysis of Wal-Mart and Medicaid enrollment in Maryland -- Summary -- section IV. Social impacts of Wal-Mart -- 10. The poor, the philanthropist, and the mom-and-pop store -- Wal-Mart's impact on poverty and income distribution -- Wal-Mart's impact on philanthropy -- Wal-Mart and mom-and-pop stores -- Mom-and-pop stores in Iowa -- 11. The social aspects of labor market : unions and participation -- Wal-Mart's impact on U.S. labor force participation -- Is Wal-Mart influencing union participation? -- 12. Wal-Mart and the local environment : ghostboxes and sprawl -- Greyfields and ghostboxes -- Wal-Mart's impact on urban sprawl -- Summary -- section V. State and local public policy and Wal-Mart -- 13. State and local restrictions on Wal-Mart -- Local restrictions on big-box stores -- State-level restrictions on Wal-Mart -- Wal-Mart and the fair share health care tax -- The law and economics of the Wal-Mart tax -- 14. On loving and hating Wal-Mart : a summary and policy recommendations -- References -- Index.
610 20 $aWal-Mart (Firm)$xEconomic aspects.
650 0 $aChain stores$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aRetail trade$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007005150.html