Access Statistics for Ron Wirtz

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A borderless perspective 0 0 0 4 1 1 6 148
A fair price for whom? 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 58
A fork in the free-trade road 0 1 2 11 0 4 10 45
A helping hand, or new age loan sharking? 0 0 4 15 4 7 61 278
A labor vacuum with no population suction 0 0 0 4 5 9 21 167
A missing bogeyman 0 0 0 1 0 1 10 32
A rising housing tide 0 0 0 3 0 1 5 20
A toolbox of favors: a kitty of different business incentives gives local communities the wherewithal to close deals 0 0 0 2 3 7 16 89
A word about do-it-yourselfers 0 1 2 2 0 3 10 10
After the fiscal gold rush 0 0 1 3 0 3 6 35
All abroad 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 22
An acquired taste for public goodies 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 27
An actuarial balancing act 1 1 2 5 1 2 5 20
An unwanted rest for hustling exporters 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 68
Anti-dumping: the free-trade antacid 0 0 4 56 0 3 23 247
Anti-poverty design: the cash-out option 1 1 7 24 4 6 25 118
Backed by popular demand: with subsidized interest rates, public loan programs abound but don't always deliver 1 1 3 9 2 9 25 133
Behind the classroom doors 0 1 3 5 0 5 10 83
Big bang biotech? 0 0 1 9 0 1 5 54
Biotech by any other measure 0 1 2 18 0 1 3 45
Blowin' in the wind: underneath the chaos of electricity deregulation, part of the answer (my friend) to future energy needs might be wind generation 0 0 1 20 0 1 17 201
Both sides of the pork trough 3 4 4 4 3 8 10 10
Breaching the "Buckskin Curtain" 0 1 2 8 2 5 23 213
Bureaucratic rent trends 0 0 1 3 0 3 14 55
Business is open on Venus 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 33
Buyer beware: Despite high costs and warnings from consumer groups, the market for payday loans and other convenience-based financial services continues to grow. What gives? 0 0 1 28 1 4 11 132
Cash, check or third party? 0 0 5 13 7 20 89 288
Change is good, if you know how 0 1 3 4 0 3 14 33
Charity case: Trends in giving 1 1 9 24 5 10 44 94
Chasing the tail of high-tech 0 0 1 10 0 1 7 45
Close-knit neighborhoods 0 0 1 2 0 1 5 25
Come and get it 1 1 4 4 1 3 11 11
Come hither, biotech 0 1 1 11 0 1 4 58
Coming to a national forest near you: roadless initiative more complex than "knuckle-dragging loggers vs. spotted owls" 0 0 0 8 0 2 8 245
Community banks full of change 2 2 4 17 2 3 9 40
Company mass layoffs: the “other” job shock 0 0 1 4 2 4 15 45
Concentrating on food concentration 0 0 0 30 0 1 14 240
Covet thy neighbor’s … pension? Public vs. private 0 1 8 17 0 2 32 71
Critics say roadless initiative a hit-and-run on local communities 0 1 1 9 0 2 7 418
Crop insurance turning dry fields in to cash crop 0 0 1 4 0 1 21 72
Data don't tell the whole story 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 29
Dealer, heal thyself 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 19
Designing a brain drain plug 0 0 0 24 2 3 10 85
Digital haves and have-nots: rural areas are assumed to be on the losing side of the digital divide, but that might not be the case 0 1 2 40 1 6 17 171
Econ 101: Is this the best way to teach economics? 0 2 5 42 4 10 21 202
Edifice Complex: Ninth District cities are investing millions in stadiums, multiuse arenas and convention centers in hopes of better economic development and entertainment options 0 2 2 25 0 5 21 131
Employee ownership: economic miracle or ESOP's fable? 0 0 6 8 1 5 25 30
Error message: it's the data, stupid 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 73
Exchange roller coasters: where's the steering wheel, and does it work? 0 1 1 27 3 8 39 294
Excuse me, which way is up? Is America still the land of economic opportunity and mobility, especially for the poor? 0 0 0 0 0 4 16 27
Fairy tales and venture capital: the rise of venture capital has given District states "green" envy, fretting that its absence will affect regional and state economies 0 0 0 35 2 2 9 337
Farm Crisis: Here we go again? 0 0 2 9 0 1 7 74
Farm safety at any speed 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 147
Farming the government: Far from abandoning farmers, government policy stumbles into the new ag economy, helping some but not others 2 2 5 25 5 8 25 171
Fido to the rescue 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 39
Filling a prescription for more pharmacies 0 0 3 5 2 8 19 44
Financial evolution, not revolution 0 1 2 27 0 2 8 105
Foreign trade zones 0 0 4 4 0 1 15 17
Franchising like rabbits 0 1 4 4 0 3 14 15
Franchisors R Us 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 7
Fully loaded: despite how they might prefer to operate, development professionals offer cache of incentives to remain competitive 0 0 0 2 1 4 9 56
Gasping over GASB 0 1 2 5 0 2 9 31
Getting back on your feet 0 0 1 3 0 1 8 30
Ginne Mae I buy a manufactured home? 0 0 2 4 1 7 29 80
Goldilocks in the corner office 0 0 3 6 0 2 18 31
Graduation exam: Spell “matriculation” 1 1 4 8 3 13 74 137
Green is good: Many believe paying farmers for better environmental outcomes is an idea worth fertilizing 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 152
Gross domestic product: understanding news from noise 0 1 9 67 3 11 29 366
Hello, have we met? 0 0 0 1 1 2 8 23
Help wanted, again 0 0 1 1 0 2 6 29
Home, sweet (manufactured?) home 0 0 1 3 1 5 14 45
Housing affordability: Catch me if you can 3 3 7 16 5 8 24 65
I am woman. Hear my business roar 0 0 1 11 3 6 12 63
I dream of protective genies 0 0 0 16 0 0 4 68
Icebergs and government productivity 0 0 1 18 0 1 7 139
In banking, less can equal more 0 1 3 6 0 2 9 32
In case of pension emergency 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 15
Inc(reasing) 0 0 0 0 1 7 22 23
Intensive care for rural hospitals 0 1 5 8 0 3 12 19
Is college unaffordable? 0 0 6 25 7 11 59 139
Is there a consumer in the house? 0 2 3 3 0 5 10 10
It’s a jungle out there 0 2 15 19 1 9 60 76
Job description: Track hiring demand 1 2 3 11 5 9 36 80
Job search 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11
Job shocks: resuscitation or suffocation? 0 0 0 2 2 3 8 33
Jobs wanted: Will work for (next to) nothing 0 0 1 7 0 0 5 101
Linking rural America. How technology is helping to reshape communities in the Ninth District 0 0 1 3 2 2 7 158
Local economic development: a recipe for stone soup 0 0 3 16 4 7 53 474
Local economic development: at your service 0 0 2 14 0 2 10 56
Looking ahead, and over your shoulder 0 0 1 4 0 0 4 31
Loosening the strings of regulation 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 25
Lotsa cooks in the broadband kitchen 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 50
Love, pickup trucks and lost manufacturing jobs 0 0 0 7 0 3 18 96
Methodology: a county slice in time 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 16
Mining for missing links 0 1 2 8 0 3 7 35
More than just a pretty place? Natural amenities offer some rural counties a leg up in attracting people, but economic prosperity does not necessarily follow 0 0 0 34 3 3 8 229
Moving beyond the 13th grade 1 3 4 11 1 7 18 62
Mr. Recession, meet Mr. Labor Shortage: Not long ago, labor shortages were the big concern on Main Street. Has the recession changed that? 0 1 6 20 0 1 13 133
New Economy value meal, please: the hype is all high skills and high pay, but the meat is maybe something less 0 0 0 12 1 2 7 78
Nimble small-town banks swatting Y2K bugs 0 0 0 2 1 3 6 143
Not your father's farm recession 0 0 1 4 0 1 9 48
Nursing a shortage 0 0 1 7 1 3 8 46
Nurturing the light bulb economy: the new-found profile of entrepreneurs and venture capital has states eager to get more of both 0 0 1 14 2 3 19 175
Opinions and poster boys 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 30
Patterns of the young and restless 0 0 0 10 0 3 10 138
Pension deficit disorder 0 0 4 7 1 3 18 32
Phone home: call centers are finding a lot to like in the district, which might have long-term impact on small cities 0 0 1 10 0 2 6 121
Pitching for the minor leagues 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 34
Please pass the salt exports 0 1 3 9 0 1 11 103
Plugging the brain drain 0 0 1 43 2 2 5 122
Poor by what standard? The poverty line is not as clear-cut as it appears 0 2 5 6 2 9 25 35
Powering the assembly line 0 0 0 7 0 0 3 44
Public venture, public gain? 0 0 0 11 0 0 3 53
Put it on my... er, his tab 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 36
Putting a finger on the grand (income) canyon 0 0 0 8 0 1 13 68
Ready, set, dance 0 0 1 5 0 4 24 84
Roadless initiative is rounding first phase and headed for second 0 0 0 5 0 2 5 52
Running the gauntlet 0 0 0 6 0 1 9 63
Rural businesses are spurring much of the growth in telecommunications 0 0 2 10 1 2 5 56
Rural census: half full or half empty? 1 1 1 11 1 2 7 68
Rx for aging health care facilities 0 0 3 4 1 3 11 14
Saving the family farm, but from what? 0 1 3 44 0 2 13 228
Semantics, lack of data create large gray area 0 0 2 3 2 4 12 118
Shall we dance? as jobs grow but the labor pool doesn't, job matching becomes essential to make sure everybody gets the right partner 0 1 1 15 0 1 17 189
Shall we gather? Many smaller cities are eager to invest in convention centers on behalf of local economic development. Whether they should "depends on how you do the accounting" 0 0 1 13 0 0 4 125
Shoestring budgets and Third World competition 0 0 1 4 0 1 9 84
Shopping online for lucky 7s 2 3 4 15 4 6 13 82
Small-town community banks not bugged by Y2K 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 45
Something, anything for the pain 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 32
Special delivery 0 0 6 26 2 3 19 75
Stadiums and convention centers as community loss leaders 0 4 9 51 0 6 13 201
Stand by your county, man 0 0 0 9 0 2 2 62
Strength in hidden numbers: Underemployment and skill mismatches offer glimpse behind area labor shortages 0 0 1 14 2 6 12 100
The 'big drink' a few swallows short 0 0 0 6 2 6 19 164
The Wal-Mart effect: Poison or antidote for local communities? 6 10 37 37 9 21 82 82
The Zen of Greenspan: who's reporting on the Fed? 0 0 0 11 0 1 4 65
The beauty (pageant?) of economics 0 3 13 59 2 8 52 444
The cousin of consolidation: contracting 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 32
The crowded field of economic development 0 0 0 5 0 2 7 197
The economy’s middle child 0 0 0 1 6 14 48 91
The granddaddy of VC 0 0 0 13 0 0 2 162
The hard hat blues 0 0 1 2 1 4 13 76
The hidden economy of nonprofits 0 1 3 10 0 4 17 39
The leader of the nonprofit pack 1 1 1 5 1 2 6 19
The myriad, changing faces of poverty. Is poverty getting better or worse? Yes 1 1 4 11 5 10 41 73
The need for speed: many argue broadband is a "must have" for people, businesses and communities. Who gets it, who doesn't and why? 1 1 3 24 3 3 7 101
The new (and improved) economy 0 0 0 4 1 2 5 41
The next IT in health care 2 2 5 5 3 4 11 13
The next biotech frontier: weights and measures 0 3 5 19 0 5 12 61
The other pharm crisis 0 0 2 9 1 3 9 27
The pig in the python 0 0 6 59 3 5 31 539
The research literature on Wal-Mart: Some frowns, some smiley faces 2 4 9 9 3 9 28 28
The semantics of health care prices 0 0 3 3 0 3 8 8
The state of small business: Small is tough, but still beautiful 0 1 5 8 0 2 15 19
Through the maze, darkly 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 10
Tied to steel tracks: Trends in the steel industry hold important decisions for Minnesota and Upper Michigan iron ore mines looking for a secure future 0 1 6 55 3 9 51 495
Too much of a good thing 0 0 1 3 0 1 9 19
Tracking the elusive nonprofit economy 0 0 5 15 2 8 24 50
Uncle Sam wants you to export 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 71
Under the influence: all engines are go for the ethanol industry, but whether that continues hinges on fickle consumers and government policy 1 1 1 18 1 1 10 98
Understanding the cost of free lunch 0 0 1 9 1 2 15 69
Wal-Mart in the Ninth District: Who, when and how 0 0 2 2 0 3 19 19
Wanted: Entrepreneurs (just don't ask for a job description) 1 2 2 2 1 12 14 14
Whistling Dixie? Despite tough times for many, some farmers finding good times 0 0 1 7 1 1 8 89
Will that be cash, check or debtor's hell? 1 2 7 15 2 5 14 67
Wrong side of the tracks? 0 1 2 8 0 7 16 100
You are what you reimburse 0 2 4 5 0 3 14 19
Total Journal Articles 38 99 385 1,892 184 603 2,474 15,649


Statistics updated 2008-10-02