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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (40858)11/5/2003 1:57:02 AM
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The author of that diatribe to which Jay responded so devastatingly has evidently never studied the economics and sociology of cities. Cities are the primary place where new ideas, both technological and political are born. (Okay Jay, Ithaca New York is an exception.) Cities are the best measure of progress. Eventually they drag the countryside forward. As the great writer Jane Jacobs has noted, in the middle ages even much needed improvements in agriculture tended to be accomplished on land inside of cities. Cities are where all the specialties concentrate and are readily available. China as it existed 2500 years ago can doubtless still be found in some places in the countryside. But to the best of all the reports, this is not now true of any city in China. So when that writer says in effect "the cities are prosperous BUT ... ", he has ignorantly made his every other statement untenable.
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