The Political Impact of Coal Industrialization in Central Appalachia State capture and local taxation

• In Event: JSS 2
  In JSS Session: Economic Geography, Spatial Inequality, and Local Development

Brief Overview

Central Appalachia experience state building at the hands of the coal industry. I empirically illustrate this process and explore how industrial state capture has damaged the political economy of the region.

Author

• Charles Conyers Harpole, The Ohio State University