The Importance of Cities in Economic Growth

Stephen Pinker: I don't disagree at all with Jeffrey West on the importance of cities. But if Jeffrey is saying that we must run out of room for economic growth, that it's not sustainable indefinitely, then I do disagree with that. David Attenborough is fond of saying that if you think infinite growth is possible in a finite world then you're either crazy or an economist. And I think David Atten was wrong on that because there's a very good new book by Andrew McAfee called More From Less. The UK likewise is using less of a lot of things. Why is that? Because we've got more efficient,. We use less steel per building we put up, we