Access Statistics for Ron Wirtz

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A borderless perspective 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 149
A fair price for whom? 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 58
A fork in the free-trade road 0 0 1 11 0 0 5 46
A helping hand, or new age loan sharking? 0 0 0 15 0 1 31 302
A labor vacuum with no population suction 0 0 0 4 1 3 35 193
A man’s home is his unsold castle 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 7
A missing bogeyman 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 32
A question of credit 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
A rising housing tide 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 20
A toolbox of favors: a kitty of different business incentives gives local communities the wherewithal to close deals 0 0 0 2 0 1 18 100
A word about do-it-yourselfers 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 11
After the fiscal gold rush 0 0 0 3 0 0 5 37
All abroad 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 25
An acquired taste for public goodies 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 29
An actuarial balancing act 0 0 1 5 0 0 3 21
An unwanted rest for hustling exporters 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 70
Anti-dumping: the free-trade antacid 0 0 0 56 1 7 22 266
Anti-poverty design: the cash-out option 0 0 1 24 3 20 64 176
Auction-rate fireworks: Ooh, aah, ouch 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 3
Backed by popular demand: with subsidized interest rates, public loan programs abound but don't always deliver 0 0 1 9 0 0 15 139
Behind the classroom doors 0 0 1 5 0 0 10 88
Big bang biotech? 0 0 0 9 0 1 4 57
Biotech by any other measure 0 0 1 18 1 2 4 48
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 0 20 0 0 5 205
Both sides of the pork trough 0 0 4 4 0 1 14 16
Breaching the "Buckskin Curtain" 0 0 1 8 4 26 42 250
Bureaucratic rent trends 0 0 0 3 0 0 9 61
Business is open on Venus 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 35
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 0 28 0 1 6 134
CRP: Green if good, but more green is preferred 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Cash, check or third party? 0 0 0 13 1 11 80 348
Change is good, if you know how 0 0 1 4 1 9 19 49
Charity case: Trends in giving 0 0 1 24 1 3 21 105
Chasing the tail of high-tech 0 0 0 10 0 0 3 47
Close-knit neighborhoods 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 26
Come and get it 0 0 1 4 1 3 10 18
Come hither, biotech 0 0 1 11 0 0 1 58
Coming to a national forest near you: roadless initiative more complex than "knuckle-dragging loggers vs. spotted owls" 0 0 0 8 0 0 3 246
Community banks full of change 0 0 2 17 1 2 5 42
Company mass layoffs: the “other” job shock 0 0 0 4 0 2 13 54
Concentrating on food concentration 0 0 0 30 0 0 10 249
Covet thy neighbor’s … pension? Public vs. private 0 0 1 17 0 1 9 78
Critics say roadless initiative a hit-and-run on local communities 0 0 1 9 0 0 3 419
Crop insurance turning dry fields in to cash crop 0 0 0 4 1 1 8 79
Data don't tell the whole story 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 30
Dealer, heal thyself 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19
Designing a brain drain plug 0 0 0 24 2 3 8 90
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 0 1 40 1 4 16 181
Econ 101: Is this the best way to teach economics? 0 0 2 42 0 0 16 208
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 0 2 25 0 0 7 133
Employee ownership: economic miracle or ESOP's fable? 0 0 0 8 0 5 29 54
Error message: it's the data, stupid 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 75
Exchange roller coasters: where's the steering wheel, and does it work? 0 0 1 27 1 4 25 311
Excuse me, which way is up? Is America still the land of economic opportunity and mobility, especially for the poor? 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 31
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 1 4 13 348
Farm Crisis: Here we go again? 0 0 0 9 1 1 5 78
Farm safety at any speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 148
Farming the government: Far from abandoning farmers, government policy stumbles into the new ag economy, helping some but not others 0 0 3 26 5 12 42 205
Fido to the rescue 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 42
Filling a prescription for more pharmacies 0 0 0 5 1 3 25 61
Financial evolution, not revolution 0 0 1 27 0 1 5 108
Foreign trade zones 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 19
Franchising like rabbits 0 0 1 4 1 2 10 22
Franchisors R Us 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 8
Fully loaded: despite how they might prefer to operate, development professionals offer cache of incentives to remain competitive 0 0 0 2 1 1 11 63
Gasping over GASB 0 0 1 5 2 4 9 38
Getting back on your feet 0 0 0 3 0 1 5 34
Ginne Mae I buy a manufactured home? 0 0 0 4 0 1 18 91
Goldilocks in the corner office 0 0 0 6 0 0 9 38
Graduation exam: Spell “matriculation” 0 0 1 8 3 5 35 159
Green is good: Many believe paying farmers for better environmental outcomes is an idea worth fertilizing 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 153
Gross domestic product: understanding news from noise 0 0 1 67 0 2 23 378
Hedging their bets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hello, have we met? 0 0 0 1 2 2 9 30
Help wanted, again 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 29
Home, sweet (manufactured?) home 0 0 0 3 0 2 12 52
Housing affordability: Catch me if you can 0 0 3 16 1 5 20 77
I am woman. Hear my business roar 0 0 0 11 0 0 9 66
I dream of protective genies 0 0 0 16 0 0 2 70
Icebergs and government productivity 0 0 0 18 0 0 2 140
In banking, less can equal more 0 0 1 6 0 0 4 34
In case of pension emergency 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 16
Intensive care for rural hospitals 0 0 1 8 0 0 7 23
Is college unaffordable? 0 0 0 25 2 15 87 215
Is there a consumer in the house? 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 10
It’s a jungle out there 0 0 3 20 7 14 34 101
Job description: Track hiring demand 0 0 2 11 0 2 34 105
Job search 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11
Job shocks: resuscitation or suffocation? 0 0 0 2 0 2 6 36
Jobs wanted: Will work for (next to) nothing 0 0 0 7 0 1 2 103
Just what is the middle class, and other stuff 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 9
Linking rural America. How technology is helping to reshape communities in the Ninth District 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 162
Local economic development: a recipe for stone soup 0 0 0 16 0 1 24 491
Local economic development: at your service 0 0 0 14 0 1 4 58
Looking ahead, and over your shoulder 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 32
Loosening the strings of regulation 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 25
Lotsa cooks in the broadband kitchen 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 51
Love, pickup trucks and lost manufacturing jobs 0 0 0 7 0 4 22 115
Making hay off the land 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 4
Methodology: a county slice in time 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 18
Mining for missing links 0 0 1 8 0 0 3 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 0 2 9 235
Moving beyond the 13th grade 0 0 3 11 0 2 16 71
Mr. Recession, meet Mr. Labor Shortage: Not long ago, labor shortages were the big concern on Main Street. Has the recession changed that? 0 0 1 20 3 10 33 165
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 0 2 13 89
Nimble small-town banks swatting Y2K bugs 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 144
Not your father's farm recession 0 0 0 4 0 3 21 68
Nursing a shortage 0 0 0 7 0 0 6 49
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 15 0 0 14 186
Opinions and poster boys 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 31
Outside the winner’s circle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Patterns of the young and restless 0 0 0 10 0 0 8 143
Pension deficit disorder 0 0 1 8 2 3 10 39
Phone home: call centers are finding a lot to like in the district, which might have long-term impact on small cities 0 0 0 10 0 1 4 123
Pitching for the minor leagues 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 34
Please pass the salt exports 0 0 1 9 4 8 17 119
Plugging the brain drain 0 0 0 43 0 1 10 130
Poor by what standard? The poverty line is not as clear-cut as it appears 0 0 2 6 2 9 29 55
Powering the assembly line 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 44
Public venture, public gain? 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 54
Put it on my... er, his tab 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 39
Putting a finger on the grand (income) canyon 0 0 0 8 0 0 5 72
Raising the credit bar, or getting clubbed by it? 0 0 0 0 2 6 10 10
Ready, set, dance 0 0 1 6 1 5 19 99
Roadless initiative is rounding first phase and headed for second 0 0 0 5 0 0 7 57
Running the gauntlet 0 0 0 6 1 1 4 66
Rural businesses are spurring much of the growth in telecommunications 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 56
Rural census: half full or half empty? 0 0 1 11 2 3 11 77
Rx for aging health care facilities 0 0 0 4 2 3 10 21
Saving the family farm, but from what? 0 0 1 44 0 1 7 233
Say hello to the modest good life for me 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 8
Semantics, lack of data create large gray area 0 0 0 3 0 1 13 127
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 0 1 15 0 0 4 192
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 0 13 0 2 4 129
Shoestring budgets and Third World competition 0 0 0 4 0 2 4 87
Shopping online for lucky 7s 0 0 3 15 1 2 15 91
Small-town community banks not bugged by Y2K 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 48
Something, anything for the pain 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 33
Special delivery 0 0 0 26 0 4 13 85
Stadiums and convention centers as community loss leaders 0 0 4 51 2 3 17 212
Stand by your county, man 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 63
Strength in hidden numbers: Underemployment and skill mismatches offer glimpse behind area labor shortages 0 0 0 14 0 0 11 105
Supersize me 0 0 0 0 15 55 170 170
Swap meet 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 8
The 'big drink' a few swallows short 0 0 0 6 0 1 12 170
The Wal-Mart effect: Poison or antidote for local communities? 0 0 0 0 3 18 32 32
The Zen of Greenspan: who's reporting on the Fed? 0 0 0 11 0 1 2 66
The beauty (pageant?) of economics 0 0 3 59 3 16 49 485
The bonds of debt 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 6
The cousin of consolidation: contracting 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 34
The crowded field of economic development 0 0 0 5 0 0 9 204
The economy’s middle child 0 0 0 1 5 10 39 116
The granddaddy of VC 0 0 0 13 1 1 2 164
The hard hat blues 0 0 0 2 2 6 19 91
The hidden economy of nonprofits 0 0 1 10 0 2 19 54
The leader of the nonprofit pack 0 0 1 5 0 0 2 19
The myriad, changing faces of poverty. Is poverty getting better or worse? Yes 0 0 2 12 2 6 54 117
The need for speed: many argue broadband is a "must have" for people, businesses and communities. Who gets it, who doesn't and why? 0 0 1 24 0 0 6 104
The new (and improved) economy 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 43
The next IT in health care 0 0 2 5 0 5 12 21
The next biotech frontier: weights and measures 0 0 3 19 0 0 11 67
The other pharm crisis 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 28
The pig in the python 0 0 0 59 0 5 25 559
The research literature on Wal-Mart: Some frowns, some smiley faces 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 6
The semantics of health care prices 0 0 0 3 0 0 10 15
The state of small business: Small is tough, but still beautiful 0 0 1 8 3 5 17 34
This space for rent. Bring your wallet, unless I know you 0 0 0 0 2 9 17 17
Through the maze, darkly 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 12
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 0 3 57 0 1 24 510
Too much of a good thing 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 20
Tracking the elusive nonprofit economy 0 0 0 15 0 4 35 77
Uncle Sam wants you to export 0 0 0 5 1 2 4 74
Under the influence: all engines are go for the ethanol industry, but whether that continues hinges on fickle consumers and government policy 0 0 1 18 0 1 9 106
Understanding the cost of free lunch 0 0 0 9 3 3 8 75
Wal-Mart in the Ninth District: Who, when and how 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Wanted: Entrepreneurs (just don't ask for a job description) 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 6
What is a small business? Inc(reasing) 0 0 0 0 1 2 16 32
Whistling Dixie? Despite tough times for many, some farmers finding good times 0 0 0 7 1 1 10 98
Will that be cash, check or debtor's hell? 0 0 2 15 0 0 11 73
Wrong side of the tracks? 0 0 1 8 0 0 12 105
You are what you reimburse 0 0 2 5 0 0 3 19
Total Journal Articles 0 0 91 1,850 116 454 2,222 17,170


Statistics updated 2009-07-03