March 2012
10 posts
Turning Cities into Growth Engines →
Ezra Klein in the Washington Post on cities:
Cities make us smarter, richer and more productive. Avent sums up some of the (voluminous) evidence: “Economist Masayuki Morikawa finds that productivity rises between 10 and 20 percent when density doubles. Morris Davis, Jonas Fisher and Toni Whited estimate that a doubling of density may increase productivity by between 17 and 28 percent....
February 2012
24 posts