Matthew P. Drennan is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. He is on leave from the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. His previous books include Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis and Modeling Metropolitan Economies for Forecasting and Policy Analysis.

Sprinkled with challenges to conventional wisdom, this book provides solid empirical documentation of sectoral change in U.S. metropolitan areas and makes an important contribution to the literature on the information economy. Choice 2003 An excellent analysis of the rise and role of the information sector-composed of producer services and advanced consumer services-in regional economic development... I enjoyed this book a great deal and highly recommend it to both researchers and practitioners working in the area of urban and regional policy. -- John I. Carruthers Regional Science and Urban Economics An accessible examination of the rise and importance of the information sector in the United States... A welcome contribution to an important area of study, offering an interdisciplinary and evidence-based account of fundamental changes in the American economy. -- Tim May and Beth Perry Journal of Regional Science 2004

• Contents:List of Tables and Figures Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Describing the Elephant: The Information Sector 2. Emergence of the Information Sector 3. The Information Sector in Metropolitan Economies 4. Metropolitan Income and Growth: The Roles of Specialization, Size, and Human Capital 5. Income Convergence and Poverty in Metropolitan Areas 6. Conclusion and Policy RecommendationsAppendix References Index

Matthew P. Drennan is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. He is on leave from the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. His previous books include Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis and Modeling Metropolitan Economies for Forecasting and Policy Analysis.

Sprinkled with challenges to conventional wisdom, this book provides solid empirical documentation of sectoral change in U.S. metropolitan areas and makes an important contribution to the literature on the information economy. Choice 2003 An excellent analysis of the rise and role of the information sector-composed of producer services and advanced consumer services-in regional economic development... I enjoyed this book a great deal and highly recommend it to both researchers and practitioners working in the area of urban and regional policy. -- John I. Carruthers Regional Science and Urban Economics An accessible examination of the rise and importance of the information sector in the United States... A welcome contribution to an important area of study, offering an interdisciplinary and evidence-based account of fundamental changes in the American economy. -- Tim May and Beth Perry Journal of Regional Science 2004

• Contents:List of Tables and Figures Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Describing the Elephant: The Information Sector 2. Emergence of the Information Sector 3. The Information Sector in Metropolitan Economies 4. Metropolitan Income and Growth: The Roles of Specialization, Size, and Human Capital 5. Income Convergence and Poverty in Metropolitan Areas 6. Conclusion and Policy RecommendationsAppendix References Index