(PITTSBURGH) Few regions pose as much of an economic conundrum as Pittsburgh.
Is the city and region – once the center of American steelmaking – a paragon of postindustrial transformation, or a left-behind region still struggling to move beyond its industrial past?
I’m an economist at the University of Pittsburgh and author of the new book “Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation.” In it, I attempt to reconcile the economic paths that have shaped modern Pittsburgh as the city tries to redefine itself…