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Scaling 3: Why companies die, but cities don't

Simplifying Complexity

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The Economics of Scale in Cities

A new study shows that the bigger a city is, the more it needs to support its social networks and socioeconomic activity. The research was carried out on cities in Argentina, France, Germany or Chile. It looked at metrics such as wages per capita but found they were super linear instead of sub-linearly.

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