Can economics offer more than a counsel of despair to struggling places?

I just finished Enrico Moretti’s The New Geography of Jobs, an admirably clear book about one of the most important trends of the day: the increasing concentration of American jobs, wealth an…

mitigatedchaos

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this is okay, but the real question is the degree of non-viability of certain small cities, and the contingent nature of that viability on technological development and unspecified exogenous shocks

True, but I reckon it hurts less to move from Cornville, OH to Cleveland, OH than it does to move from Cornville, OH, to OverpricedBurough, NYC, NY.

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