Excerpt from Regions, Resources, and Economic Growth Summary statements are provided at several points. There is _a summary of the key facts in regional economic development since 1870 in the last section of chapter 3. The emphasis here is on the growth indexes. A roundup of the main facts in the development of productive activities in the multistate regions of the country, and particularly the natural resources activities, is provided in chapter 18 at the end of Part III. A summary of the recent industrial shifts, of changes in the regional distribution of economic activities, and of the resulting regional patterns of growth is provided in chapters 19 and 26, the opening and closing chapters of Part IV. The central features of the regional variations in levels of living and of growth of per capita income are summarized at the end of each of the chapters in Part V and in more general terms in chapter 8 of Part II and chapter 34 of Part V. The summary for the entire volume is provided in chapter 9, at the end of the conceptual discussion and preceding the detailed description and analysis of regional economic growth which are set out in Parts III, IV and V.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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