The 2002 National CED symposium : setting economic policy to achieve social goals : Objectives and Rationale

Introduction

Dear David Miller,

I would like to take this opportunity to reply — admittedly, with a slight degree of tardiness — to your e-mail message dated July 10, 2002. You see, by comparing international and national  CED discourse, you raised some important points that I thought might serve me well to better explain the objectives and rationale behind this first (and hopefully not last) National Community Economic Development Symposium. With the Symposium only three months away at the time, I originally thought that responding through my presentation would not be inappropriate. However, the seven-month postponement of the Symposium brought about an additional delay and so today, the day after Mother’s Day, the only thing that I can somewhat belatedly fall back on to excuse myself is my mother’s adage of “better late than never”...

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pdf Objectives and Rationale William A. Ninacs 2003William A. Ninacs, Objectives and Rationale dans T. Aricanli (Editor), Setting Economic Policy to Achieve Social Goals: Proceedings of the National CED Symposium, organisé par la School of Community Economic Development du Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester (New Hampshire), Community Economic Development Press, 1-10 (texte soumis), 2003