Local economic policy and its implementation : case studies of innovative efforts / Peter B. Meyer -- Putting targeted economic development to work : the role of targeted marketing in an economic development program / C. Theodore Koebel and Cara L. Bailey -- Local economic development in a traditional industrial area : the case of the Ruhrgebiet / Gerd Hennings and Klaus R. Kunzmann -- Employee buyouts and loans to preserve jobs : the South Bend experience / Charles Craypo and Jerry Paar -- Policy instruments in west central Scotland and their local authority context / William F. Lever -- Regenerating urban neighborhoods : local people as implementers of economic development policies / Alan McGregor and Andrew A. McArthur -- From Cannery Row to Gold Coast in Baltimore : is this development? / Robert P. Giloth.