By the time I arrived at Penn, regional science was more than ten years old and the field of choice for those interested in the regional impacts of national or global processes of economic and social change. In 1969, Isard and his students had published the General Theory of social, economic, political and regional change, and this became the main text of the theory course conducted by Isard. I was profoundly influenced by this text, which defined much of my approach to policy analysis in my future work.
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