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Rick Santorum’s Ugly Appeal to Rural Voters
Not all of them are “clinging to guns and religion,” as Barack Obama famously said in 2008, but Rick Santorum has catapulted to the top of the Republican field by connecting with a bitter streak among...
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The Use and Misuse of Glaeser's Triumph of the City
Appeals to authority are now the stock-in-trade of progressive pundits across a range of public controversies. In the face of popular discontent bubbling up from forums on the net and elsewhere, their...
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Floribec : Quebec in the Tropics
Floribec has been part of the collective imagination of the Quebecois for nearly 50 years. Over time, a movie, a novel, advertisements and news reports played an important part in establishing the...
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The Expanding Wealth Of Washington
Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: Washington, D.C. The city that wreaked economic disasters under two administration last...
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Data Spotlight: Ranking States by Their Dependence on Manufacturing
A recent Brookings paper makes a clear case from the start: “Manufacturing matters to the United States …” Other economists and econ bloggers aren’t so sure. What’s clear, however, is certain states...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Vietnam may be the next China. With a nominally communist government, Vietnam has liberalized its markets and is prospering from an increased reliance on exports. Vietnam's gross domestic product per...
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Addressing Workforce Shortages in the Dakotas
While not immune to the recession, the upper Great Plains is in a different economic situation from the rest of the nation. Growth coupled with low unemployment means more strain on the region’s...
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The Leveraged Buyout of the GDR
Until the European Central Bank purchased a call option on the future assets of the Greek government (which remains out-of-the-money), the largest leveraged buyout of a sovereign state had taken place...
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The Great Reordering of the Urban Hierarchy
A delegation from Chicago is in Brussels this week to sell the city as a tourist destination in advance of the forthcoming NATO Summit. A Phil Rosenthal column explains that the city has a long way to...
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Inequality and Economic Growth
There has been news and conversation about economic inequality and economic growth lately, mostly because the former is increasing steadily and the latter has been less than stellar. Of course, there...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto is Japan's second largest urban area and ranks as the 12th largest urban area in the world. With a population of approximately 17,000,000 and a land area of 1240 square miles (3200...
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What Apple’s Supply Chain Says About US Manufacturing and Middle-Skill Training
In January, The New York Times released a front-page report on the iEconomy, Apple’s vast and rapidly growing empire built on the production of tech devices almost exclusively overseas. The fascinating...
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How A Baby Bust Will Turn Asia's Tigers Toothless
For the last two decades, America’s pundit class has been looking for models to correct our numerous national deficiencies. Some of the more deluded have settled on Europe, which, given its persistent...
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The Next Public Debt Crisis Has Arrived
In July of 2009, while the smoke from the global financial bonfire was still thick in the air, I wrote for this website about another crisis of massive proportions just looming on the horizon: the...
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Gary Hustwit's "Urbanized" Re-lighting Debate on Cities
Gary Hustwit’s new film, “Urbanized,” is the third in his series of documentaries concerning design. In his first two films, he looks at consumer product design and the global visual culture. The...
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Buffalo, You Are Not Alone
It hurts. When a bigtime Harvard economist writes off your city as a loss, and says America should turn its back on you, it hurts. But Ed Glaeser’s dart tossing is but the smallest taste of what it’s...
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Commanding Bureaucracies & 'The New Normal'
Prior to the fifteenth century, China led the world in technological sophistication. Then, it went into a period of long decline. Here’s what Gregory Clark had to say about it in Farewell to Alms: ......
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Smart Growth and The New Newspeak
It’s a given in our representative system that policies adopted into law should have popular support. However, there is a distinction to be made between adopting a policy consistent with what a...
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Smart Growth: The Maryland Example
This is Part Two of a two-part series. Evidence that people just don’t like Smart Growth is revealed in findings from organizations set up to promote Smart Growth. In 2009, the Washington Post...
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'Protestant Ethic' 2.0: The New Ways Religion Is Driving Economic Outperformance
In this season when most Americans are more concerned than usual with spiritual matters, it may be time to ask whether religion still matters. Certainly religiosity’s worst side has been amply on...
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