Access Statistics for Ron Wirtz

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A borderless perspective 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 210
A fair price for whom? 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 68
A fork in the free-trade road 0 0 0 20 1 1 1 99
A helping hand, or new age loan sharking? 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 350
A labor vacuum with no population suction 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 227
A man’s home is his unsold castle 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 45
A missing bogeyman 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 53
A question of credit 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 36
A rising housing tide 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 35
A toolbox of favors: a kitty of different business incentives gives local communities the wherewithal to close deals 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 143
A word about do-it-yourselfers 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 32
After the fiscal gold rush 0 0 0 6 1 1 1 67
All abroad 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 43
An acquired taste for public goodies 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 52
An actuarial balancing act 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 47
An unwanted rest for hustling exporters 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 83
Anti-dumping: the free-trade antacid 0 0 0 59 0 0 0 329
Anti-poverty design: the cash-out option 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 259
Auction-rate fireworks: Ooh, aah, ouch 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 55
Backed by popular demand: with subsidized interest rates, public loan programs abound but don't always deliver 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 163
Behind the classroom doors 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 104
Big bang biotech? 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 95
Biotech by any other measure 0 0 0 19 1 1 1 72
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 0 230
Both sides of the pork trough 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 57
Breaching the \\"Buckskin Curtain\\" 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 367
Bureaucratic rent trends 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 89
Business is open on Venus 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 55
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 35 0 0 0 180
CRP: Green if good, but more green is preferred 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 35
Cash, check or third party? 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 382
Change is good, if you know how 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 118
Charity case: Trends in giving 0 0 0 27 1 1 1 149
Chasing the tail of high-tech 0 0 0 14 0 1 1 83
Close-knit neighborhoods 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 57
Come and get it 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 49
Come hither, biotech 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 76
Coming to a national forest near you: roadless initiative more complex than \\"knuckle-dragging loggers vs. spotted owls\\" 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 308
Community banks full of change 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 72
Company mass layoffs: the “other” job shock 0 0 0 7 1 2 2 81
Concentrating on food concentration 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 269
Covet thy neighbor’s … pension? Public vs. private 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 100
Critics say roadless initiative a hit-and-run on local communities 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 430
Crop insurance turning dry fields in to cash crop 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 93
Data don't tell the whole story 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 43
Dealer, heal thyself 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 41
Designing a brain drain plug 0 0 0 25 1 1 1 110
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 44 0 0 1 224
Econ 101: Is this the best way to teach economics? 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 291
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 0 25 0 0 0 152
Employee ownership: economic miracle or ESOP's fable? 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 127
Error message: it's the data, stupid 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 95
Exchange roller coasters: where's the steering wheel, and does it work? 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 340
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 0 0 75
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 36 1 1 2 378
Farm Crisis: Here we go again? 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 100
Farm safety at any speed 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 164
Farming the government: Far from abandoning farmers, government policy stumbles into the new ag economy, helping some but not others 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 250
Fido to the rescue 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 57
Filling a prescription for more pharmacies 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 89
Financial evolution, not revolution 0 0 0 28 0 0 0 126
Foreign trade zones 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 53
Franchising like rabbits 0 0 0 13 0 1 2 71
Franchisors R Us 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26
Fully loaded: despite how they might prefer to operate, development professionals offer cache of incentives to remain competitive 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 93
Gasping over GASB 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 68
Getting back on your feet 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 59
Ginnie Mae I buy a manufactured home? 0 1 1 7 0 1 2 120
Goldilocks in the corner office 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 85
Graduation exam: Spell “matriculation” 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 196
Green is good: Many believe paying farmers for better environmental outcomes is an idea worth fertilizing 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 169
Gross domestic product: understanding news from noise 0 0 0 79 0 0 0 437
Hedging their bets 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 29
Hello, have we met? 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 79
Help wanted, again 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 56
Home, sweet (manufactured?) home 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 77
Housing affordability: Catch me if you can 0 0 0 22 0 1 1 123
I am woman. Hear my business roar 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 104
I dream of protective genies 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 87
Icebergs and government productivity 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 163
In banking, less can equal more 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 54
In case of pension emergency 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 42
Intensive care for rural hospitals 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 47
Is college unaffordable? 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 349
Is there a consumer in the house? 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 39
It’s a jungle out there 0 0 0 20 0 0 1 150
Job description: Track hiring demand 0 0 0 15 1 1 1 178
Job search 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 45
Job shocks: resuscitation or suffocation? 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 66
Jobs wanted: Will work for (next to) nothing 0 0 0 7 1 2 2 154
Just what is the middle class, and other stuff 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 66
Linking rural America. How technology is helping to reshape communities in the Ninth District 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 176
Local economic development: a recipe for stone soup 0 0 0 19 1 1 1 511
Local economic development: at your service 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 79
Looking ahead, and over your shoulder 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 61
Loosening the strings of regulation 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 69
Lotsa cooks in the broadband kitchen 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 72
Love, pickup trucks and lost manufacturing jobs 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 136
Making hay off the land 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 27
Methodology: a county slice in time 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 43
Mining for missing links 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 72
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 0 0 251
Moving beyond the 13th grade 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 97
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 0 20 1 1 1 225
New Economy value meal, please: the hype is all high skills and high pay, but the meat is maybe something less 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 109
Nimble small-town banks swatting Y2K bugs 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 160
Not your father's farm recession 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 99
Nursing a shortage 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 107
Nurturing the light bulb economy: the new-found profile of entrepreneurs and venture capital has states eager to get more of both 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 216
Opinions and poster boys 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46
Outside the winner’s circle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19
Patterns of the young and restless 0 0 1 11 0 0 1 169
Pension deficit disorder 0 0 0 14 0 1 2 76
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 0 0 139
Pitching for the minor leagues 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 48
Please pass the salt exports 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 147
Plugging the brain drain 0 0 0 48 0 0 1 179
Poor by what standard? The poverty line is not as clear-cut as it appears 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 134
Powering the assembly line 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 63
Public venture, public gain? 0 0 0 11 1 1 1 65
Public-private partnerships: for whom the road tolls? 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 42
Put it on my... er, his tab 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 52
Putting a finger on the grand (income) canyon 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 91
Raising the credit bar, or getting clubbed by it? 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 75
Ready, set, dance 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 144
Roadless initiative is rounding first phase and headed for second 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 67
Running the gauntlet 0 0 0 6 1 1 5 85
Rural businesses are spurring much of the growth in telecommunications 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 68
Rural census: half full or half empty? 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 86
Rx for aging health care facilities 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 55
Saving the family farm, but from what? 0 0 1 45 0 0 1 250
Say hello to the modest good life for me 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 60
Semantics, lack of data create large gray area 0 0 1 4 1 1 2 150
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 0 16 0 1 2 223
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 14 0 0 0 151
Shoestring budgets and Third World competition 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 99
Shopping online for lucky 7s 0 0 0 18 0 0 1 149
Small-town community banks not bugged by Y2K 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 61
Something, anything for the pain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43
Special delivery 0 0 0 26 0 1 1 125
Stadiums and convention centers as community loss leaders 0 1 1 56 0 1 1 257
Stand by your county, man 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 75
Strength in hidden numbers: Underemployment and skill mismatches offer glimpse behind area labor shortages 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 150
Supersize me 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 311
Swap meet 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 44
The 'big drink' a few swallows short 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 208
The Wal-Mart effect: Poison or antidote for local communities? 0 0 0 24 1 2 5 265
The Zen of Greenspan: who's reporting on the Fed? 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 83
The beauty (pageant?) of economics 0 0 0 62 0 0 0 570
The bonds of debt 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 57
The cousin of consolidation: contracting 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 52
The crowded field of economic development 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 222
The economy’s middle child 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 234
The granddaddy of VC 0 0 2 17 0 0 2 188
The hard hat blues 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 159
The hidden economy of nonprofits 0 1 1 34 1 2 3 170
The leader of the nonprofit pack 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 36
The myriad, changing faces of poverty. Is poverty getting better or worse? Yes 0 0 0 14 0 1 1 200
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 0 24 0 0 0 148
The new (and improved) economy 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 59
The next IT in health care 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 49
The next biotech frontier: weights and measures 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 85
The other pharm crisis 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 57
The pig in the python 0 0 0 65 1 1 3 626
The research literature on Wal-Mart: Some frowns, some smiley faces 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58
The semantics of health care prices 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 40
The state of small business: Small is tough, but still beautiful 0 0 0 9 1 2 2 66
This space for rent. Bring your wallet, unless I know you 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44
Through the maze, darkly 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 34
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 0 59 0 0 0 550
Too much of a good thing 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 37
Tracking the elusive nonprofit economy 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 101
Uncle Sam wants you to export 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 98
Under the influence: all engines are go for the ethanol industry, but whether that continues hinges on fickle consumers and government policy 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 122
Understanding the cost of free lunch 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 89
Wait for us 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32
Wal-Mart in the Ninth District: Who, when and how 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 40
Wanted: Entrepreneurs (just don't ask for a job description) 0 0 2 128 1 2 13 619
What is a small business? Inc(reasing) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 103
Whistling Dixie? Despite tough times for many, some farmers finding good times 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 116
Will that be cash, check or debtor's hell? 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 104
Wrong side of the tracks? 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 130
You are what you reimburse 0 0 0 6 1 1 1 44
Total Journal Articles 0 3 12 2,341 37 64 118 24,297


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