Economic‐Development Stakeholder Perspectives on Boomtown Dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale,Texas

Unconventional oil and gas production in the United States reversed a decades‐old trend of rising oil imports, provided an argument for lifting the U.S. crude oil export ban and motivated the development of domestic natural gas export facilities. But the most visible impact of unconventional‐hydrocarbon extraction is the creation of boomtowns in rural regions. Despite widespread media coverage, scholarly analysis of boomtowns is restricted to regional econometric studies with little attention to how economic stakeholders understand and respond to booming economies. Here we analyze interviews with key economic stakeholders in the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas. Respondents consider their community's economic success relative to the price of oil and indicate concerns about the deterioration of roads, high housing demand, and skyrocketing wages. We also re‐examine John Gilmore's foundational work on boomtowns in the 1970s in the context of contemporary unconventional extraction.     

湖南省经济增长的动力机制与潜在问题分析

通过对湖南在改革开放20年以来所取得的经济增长成果的分析,探讨其经济波动性及其结构矛盾,对开放程度、使用外资额、企业固定资产投资额、工业效率、产业结构、人口规模等多方经济增长的动力机制,采用因子分析法等多种计量手段,分析湖南省经济增长的主要推动因素,揭示湖南省经济增长方式的特点和存在的问题,并提出了相应的对策。