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The problem with unequal cities (with Richard McGahey)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Cities and Governments - What Would You Do?

I'd be like an academia, I'd be a left wing Ron DeSannis and have a lot better economics produced than the economy. Most of the subsidy flow really is in the form of transfer payments. Cities can't solve these things on their own. They need to rely with other cities. Texas is my favorite case, right? You know the Texas Triangle, Dallas, or at Austin, San Antonio, and Houston,. It produces what 70, 80% of Texas is GDP, 67% of the population. If you had a country of city states based on commuting zone maps, I think you'd have a potentially somewhat different politics.

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