Monday, May 12, 2008

Fact of the Day: City Life is Hard!

From "The Logic of Life":

As a rule of thumb, each doubling of city size raises wages by 10 percent but raises prices by 16 percent.

Apparently, this surprising result comes from the data gathered by the foremost economist on cities, Ed Glaeser. So the question is why do people live in cities?





The Answer: Knowledge Spillover...............Huh?

I know my family didn't move to Taipei for this.

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