
Economic Base Theory holds that basic industries and support industries are requisite for the population growth that spurs residential and retail development.
When I wasn’t watching the rat race or helping prepare for the educational events at the Dallas conference this week, I was taking notes on what the speakers were saying. My biggest takeaway was to learn about economic base theory (EBT). Economist Robert Murray Haig first put forward the theory in 1928. It essentially says that jobs lead the economy both when it is getting stronger and when it is getting weaker. This is something that we all have intuited, but it was good to have this feeling stated overtly and have the underlying science behind it explained.
I won’t go into all that, but I do want to provide the sequence and define some of the terms used in the theory.
EBT holds that development happens in a specific order for specific reasons.
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