When Ronald Reagan made his famous foray to the disheveled precincts of the South Bronx the other day, one of the ideas he was attempting to sell was a new-fangled concept known as “enterprise zones.”
It’s a pretty safe bet that most of Reagan’s listeners—like most other people in the United States—had never heard of enterprise zones before. But it is an equally safe assumption that all of us will be hearing a lot more about them in the future. As sometimes happens in the peculiar rhythms of our politics, this idea for refurbishing and revitalizing our ailing inner cities has arisen at a time when people of widely differing persuasions seem willing to accept it.
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