A LOS ANGELES TIMES - FINANCIAL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT : The Next California--The State’s Economy in the Year 2000 : ABOUT THIS SECTION

This special report--”The Next California--The State’s Economy in the Year 2000,”--marks the first editorial collaboration between the Los Angeles Times and the Financial Times of London. The aim is to offer readers of both newspapers special insights into what the future holds for California--home to world’s seventh-largest economy. From vantage points within the state, Times staff writers analyze the dominant business and financial forces at work. They talk to economists, executives, entrepreneurs and small-business owners to find out how Californians assess their own future. And, from both here and from capitals abroad, Financial Times correspondents offer their perspectives on the state’s economic future and examine how other nation’s view our problems and our prospects.