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Few books, intended for students and textbook markets, have something

important to teach the academic professional. This is such a book. It is clearly meant to be used as a textbook in graduate, and possibly undergraduate, business ethics courses. It provides, however, a number of insights into the ethical

dimensions of public policymaking that are instructive for scholars.

In the analysis and planning of economic development, metaphors obscure the crucial relation between development policy and political governance. Beneath this shroud of "value-free" development, it becomes exceedingly difficult for public officials to justify the public's political interests in creating

jobs for local residents, boosting tax revenues, and decreasing disparities between central cities and suburbs.

This paper advances a new metaphor -- economic development as "an exercise in political governance" -- as an anchoring referent for conceptualizing politically-relevant  allocational consequences.