The Value of Hawaii: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future by Craig Howes (Editor) and Jonathan K. K. Osorio (Editor), present a variety of essays about the swirl of challenges that face our fiftieth state. Far from being the paradise of tourist and ex-pat dreams, Hawaii is a real place with real, and difficult social, political and economic issues. This books shines a light on these problems, while offering many solutions.
These essays were mostly written in and around 2008, at the start of the Great Recession. So most of the writing on the economy and policy is colored by the collapse of Hawaii’s booming housing market, and the sharp drop in tourism. Eleven years later, these essays are not doubt out of date. How do things stand now? As an economy with all of its eggs in the tourist basket, perhaps nothing has changed at all. Hawaii is still a dangerously one note economy.
These essays were mostly written in and around 2008, at the start of the Great Recession. So most of the writing on the economy and policy is colored by the collapse of Hawaii’s booming housing market, and the sharp drop in tourism. Eleven years later, these essays are not doubt out of date. How do things stand now? As an economy with all of its eggs in the tourist basket, perhaps nothing has changed at all. Hawaii is still a dangerously one note economy.
No comments:
Post a Comment