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This memorandum provides an overview of programs that are designed to provide a boost to Colorado's economy, including incentivizing businesses to locate in Colorado, expand their Colorado-based workforce, or other wise grow their Colorado business operations.

"Daniel Susskind traces the rich, surprisingly brief history of economic growth and responds to its ills. We cannot focus only on growth's upsides, but nor is degrowth a viable policy: the benefits of prosperity are too great to discard. Instead we must face hard tradeoffs, demoting growth from our top priority and reckoning with its moral challenges"--

This paper examines the effects of the state enterprise zone program in Colorado. Colorado began its enterrprise zone program in 1986, and the program is Colorado's largest single state economic development program, granting $188.6 million in tax credits through fiscal year 1994-1995. Results indicate that the Colorado enterprise zone program has had a positive and significant impact both on employment growth in zone areas and on the level of per...

Examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those in recent memory.