The problem with unequal cities (with Richard McGahey)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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The Agglomeration Effect in the United States
All of the prosperity is produced in superstar cities. If you don't live in one of those cities, if you live in the country, about all that's available to you is opening campgrounds or growing food. That dynamic creates a terrible political problem in our system because it creates understandable resentment from the people who live in effectively 90% of the surface area of the country. Most people in the least the lower 48 states live in a commuting shed. So there might be something with the second level cities that they can be brought into in network via the technology.
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