We’ve been back in Austin for nearly three weeks, and driving around it’s hard not to notice all the new restaurants and bars. Since we were only gone for 15 months, and we don’t exactly get out as much as …
I’ll be at the Texas Economic Development Council’s 2012 Winter Meeting in Galveston on Thursday talking about what I learned working in Washington last year. The presentation will cover: – Federal strategies for supporting regional economic development – Why clusters …
I’ll be teaching sustainable economic development at the University of Texas at Austin this semester. This will be the second class on economics I’ve taught to graduate students, but the first dealing with sustainability. The course is part of the …
Nate Berg at The Atlantic Cities today takes up the latest research on megaregions in The Emerging and Interconnected ‘Megapolitan’ Regions: “Metros are the basis of integration into the global economy, I have no doubt about that,” says [Robert] Lang, a …
Catherine Rampell at the New York Times looks at the latest shift in workforce demographics in her excellent article earlier this week, Instead of Work, Younger Women Head to School. It got me thinking: what impact did the “mancession” have on the earnings …
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Brian Kelsey is an Austin-based economic development consultant and former senior policy advisor at the U.S. Economic Development Administration in Washington, DC. Civic Analytics is his blog about data-driven analysis for understanding community and economic trends. Views expressed here are his own.
