Access Statistics for Ron Wirtz

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A borderless perspective 0 0 0 18 1 1 1 211
A fair price for whom? 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 70
A fork in the free-trade road 0 0 0 20 1 1 2 100
A helping hand, or new age loan sharking? 0 0 0 21 1 1 1 351
A labor vacuum with no population suction 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 228
A man’s home is his unsold castle 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 48
A missing bogeyman 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 56
A question of credit 0 0 0 3 2 2 3 38
A rising housing tide 0 0 0 4 2 4 4 39
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 2 3 3 35
After the fiscal gold rush 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 67
All abroad 0 0 0 3 2 2 2 45
An acquired taste for public goodies 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 53
An actuarial balancing act 0 0 0 5 2 4 4 51
An unwanted rest for hustling exporters 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 83
Anti-dumping: the free-trade antacid 0 0 0 59 5 34 34 363
Anti-poverty design: the cash-out option 0 0 0 27 1 1 1 260
Auction-rate fireworks: Ooh, aah, ouch 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 58
Backed by popular demand: with subsidized interest rates, public loan programs abound but don't always deliver 0 0 0 9 1 1 2 165
Behind the classroom doors 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 105
Big bang biotech? 0 0 0 10 3 3 4 99
Biotech by any other measure 0 0 0 19 1 2 3 74
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 1 1 1 231
Both sides of the pork trough 0 0 0 8 2 3 6 62
Breaching the \\"Buckskin Curtain\\" 0 0 0 12 3 5 6 373
Bureaucratic rent trends 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 90
Business is open on Venus 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 56
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 3 3 183
CRP: Green if good, but more green is preferred 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 36
Cash, check or third party? 0 0 0 13 2 4 5 387
Change is good, if you know how 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 119
Charity case: Trends in giving 0 0 0 27 2 3 4 152
Chasing the tail of high-tech 0 0 0 14 4 10 10 93
Close-knit neighborhoods 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 59
Come and get it 0 0 0 6 2 3 4 53
Come hither, biotech 0 0 0 12 1 1 2 78
Coming to a national forest near you: roadless initiative more complex than \\"knuckle-dragging loggers vs. spotted owls\\" 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 309
Community banks full of change 0 0 1 20 1 4 5 77
Company mass layoffs: the “other” job shock 0 0 0 7 1 1 3 83
Concentrating on food concentration 0 0 0 30 3 4 4 273
Covet thy neighbor’s … pension? Public vs. private 0 0 0 17 2 2 2 102
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 2 3 3 96
Data don't tell the whole story 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 44
Dealer, heal thyself 0 0 0 4 1 2 3 44
Designing a brain drain plug 0 0 0 25 3 4 5 114
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 0 44 1 1 1 225
Econ 101: Is this the best way to teach economics? 0 0 0 48 2 2 3 294
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 1 1 1 153
Employee ownership: economic miracle or ESOP's fable? 0 0 0 23 1 1 1 128
Error message: it's the data, stupid 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 96
Exchange roller coasters: where's the steering wheel, and does it work? 0 0 0 29 7 9 9 349
Excuse me, which way is up? Is America still the land of economic opportunity and mobility, especially for the poor? 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 79
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 0 0 2 379
Farm Crisis: Here we go again? 0 0 0 9 3 3 4 104
Farm safety at any speed 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 165
Farming the government: Far from abandoning farmers, government policy stumbles into the new ag economy, helping some but not others 0 0 0 26 5 6 8 258
Fido to the rescue 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 60
Filling a prescription for more pharmacies 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 91
Financial evolution, not revolution 0 0 0 28 1 2 4 130
Foreign trade zones 0 0 0 9 2 3 4 57
Franchising like rabbits 0 0 0 13 1 2 2 73
Franchisors R Us 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 29
Fully loaded: despite how they might prefer to operate, development professionals offer cache of incentives to remain competitive 0 0 0 3 2 4 4 97
Gasping over GASB 0 0 0 5 2 2 2 70
Getting back on your feet 0 0 0 4 5 5 5 64
Ginnie Mae I buy a manufactured home? 0 0 0 7 2 2 4 124
Goldilocks in the corner office 0 0 0 6 1 2 3 88
Graduation exam: Spell “matriculation” 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 197
Green is good: Many believe paying farmers for better environmental outcomes is an idea worth fertilizing 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 169
Gross domestic product: understanding news from noise 0 0 0 79 0 0 0 437
Hedging their bets 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 33
Hello, have we met? 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 82
Help wanted, again 0 0 0 2 3 4 5 61
Home, sweet (manufactured?) home 0 0 0 6 1 2 4 81
Housing affordability: Catch me if you can 0 0 0 22 1 2 2 125
I am woman. Hear my business roar 0 0 0 14 1 2 2 106
I dream of protective genies 0 0 0 16 1 1 1 88
Icebergs and government productivity 0 0 0 21 0 0 3 166
In banking, less can equal more 0 0 0 6 1 1 1 55
In case of pension emergency 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 46
Intensive care for rural hospitals 0 0 0 9 1 2 2 49
Is college unaffordable? 0 0 0 46 2 9 11 360
Is there a consumer in the house? 0 0 0 3 4 4 4 43
It’s a jungle out there 0 0 0 20 2 2 3 153
Job description: Track hiring demand 0 0 0 15 0 2 3 180
Job search 0 0 0 3 3 8 10 54
Job shocks: resuscitation or suffocation? 0 0 0 3 1 3 3 69
Jobs wanted: Will work for (next to) nothing 0 0 0 7 2 3 4 157
Just what is the middle class, and other stuff 0 0 0 6 2 5 6 72
Linking rural America. How technology is helping to reshape communities in the Ninth District 0 0 0 3 2 3 5 181
Local economic development: a recipe for stone soup 0 0 0 19 1 2 3 513
Local economic development: at your service 0 0 0 14 2 2 3 82
Looking ahead, and over your shoulder 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 61
Loosening the strings of regulation 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 70
Lotsa cooks in the broadband kitchen 0 0 0 6 5 6 6 78
Love, pickup trucks and lost manufacturing jobs 0 0 0 7 3 3 3 139
Making hay off the land 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 30
Methodology: a county slice in time 0 0 0 4 2 3 4 47
Mining for missing links 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 73
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 2 2 4 255
Moving beyond the 13th grade 0 0 0 11 2 2 4 101
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 2 2 3 227
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 3 3 3 112
Nimble small-town banks swatting Y2K bugs 0 0 0 2 2 3 4 164
Not your father's farm recession 0 0 0 4 4 4 4 103
Nursing a shortage 0 0 1 9 3 4 6 112
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 2 2 2 218
Opinions and poster boys 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 47
Outside the winner’s circle 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 22
Patterns of the young and restless 0 0 0 11 2 4 4 173
Pension deficit disorder 0 0 0 14 2 3 4 80
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 2 141
Pitching for the minor leagues 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 50
Please pass the salt exports 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 147
Plugging the brain drain 0 0 0 48 4 5 5 184
Poor by what standard? The poverty line is not as clear-cut as it appears 0 0 0 7 1 1 2 136
Powering the assembly line 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 63
Public venture, public gain? 0 0 0 11 1 1 2 66
Public-private partnerships: for whom the road tolls? 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 43
Put it on my... er, his tab 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 53
Putting a finger on the grand (income) canyon 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 91
Raising the credit bar, or getting clubbed by it? 0 0 0 2 4 5 5 80
Ready, set, dance 0 0 0 7 1 3 4 148
Roadless initiative is rounding first phase and headed for second 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 68
Running the gauntlet 0 0 0 6 1 2 14 98
Rural businesses are spurring much of the growth in telecommunications 0 0 0 10 1 2 2 70
Rural census: half full or half empty? 0 0 0 11 1 1 1 87
Rx for aging health care facilities 0 0 0 5 2 2 2 57
Saving the family farm, but from what? 0 0 0 45 1 1 1 251
Say hello to the modest good life for me 0 0 0 4 2 3 4 64
Semantics, lack of data create large gray area 0 0 0 4 1 3 4 153
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 2 2 2 225
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 2 2 2 153
Shoestring budgets and Third World competition 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 101
Shopping online for lucky 7s 0 0 0 18 1 2 3 152
Small-town community banks not bugged by Y2K 0 0 0 1 1 4 4 65
Something, anything for the pain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43
Special delivery 0 0 0 26 4 5 5 130
Stadiums and convention centers as community loss leaders 0 0 0 56 1 2 3 260
Stand by your county, man 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 77
Strength in hidden numbers: Underemployment and skill mismatches offer glimpse behind area labor shortages 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 151
Supersize me 0 0 0 2 5 8 9 319
Swap meet 0 0 0 3 4 6 7 50
The 'big drink' a few swallows short 0 0 0 6 2 3 3 211
The Wal-Mart effect: Poison or antidote for local communities? 0 0 0 24 2 4 7 271
The Zen of Greenspan: who's reporting on the Fed? 0 0 0 11 1 3 4 87
The beauty (pageant?) of economics 0 0 0 62 0 0 0 570
The bonds of debt 0 0 0 5 2 3 3 60
The cousin of consolidation: contracting 0 0 0 3 5 5 5 57
The crowded field of economic development 0 0 0 5 4 4 4 226
The economy’s middle child 0 0 0 2 2 5 6 240
The granddaddy of VC 0 0 0 17 2 2 2 190
The hard hat blues 0 0 0 6 1 2 4 163
The hidden economy of nonprofits 0 0 1 35 1 29 32 201
The leader of the nonprofit pack 0 0 0 5 2 3 3 39
The myriad, changing faces of poverty. Is poverty getting better or worse? Yes 0 0 0 14 1 1 2 202
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 2 2 2 150
The new (and improved) economy 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 59
The next IT in health care 0 0 0 5 3 3 5 54
The next biotech frontier: weights and measures 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 85
The other pharm crisis 0 0 0 9 2 3 3 60
The pig in the python 0 0 0 65 2 2 3 628
The research literature on Wal-Mart: Some frowns, some smiley faces 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 60
The semantics of health care prices 0 0 0 3 1 1 3 42
The state of small business: Small is tough, but still beautiful 0 0 0 9 4 4 5 70
This space for rent. Bring your wallet, unless I know you 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 45
Through the maze, darkly 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 35
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 2 3 5 555
Too much of a good thing 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 39
Tracking the elusive nonprofit economy 0 0 0 17 1 2 3 104
Uncle Sam wants you to export 0 0 0 5 2 2 4 101
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 1 123
Understanding the cost of free lunch 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 89
Wait for us 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 35
Wal-Mart in the Ninth District: Who, when and how 0 0 0 0 4 7 7 47
Wanted: Entrepreneurs (just don't ask for a job description) 0 0 0 128 2 2 5 623
What is a small business? Inc(reasing) 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 106
Whistling Dixie? Despite tough times for many, some farmers finding good times 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 117
Will that be cash, check or debtor's hell? 0 0 0 18 2 2 3 107
Wrong side of the tracks? 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 130
You are what you reimburse 0 0 0 6 3 4 5 48
Total Journal Articles 0 0 3 2,344 286 473 615 24,875


Statistics updated 2026-02-12