Roland Stephen

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• America Needs to Love its Cities Ed Glaeser makes the case for cities, left and right.
• Dirty Coal, Clean Future Can we build a clean future based on dirty coal? We have no choice.
• How the Crash Will Reshape America Richard Florida takes a preliminary tour of the impact of the great recession on U.S. economic geography.
• Irish Tears Michael Lewis parses the Irish economic crash, which has a spectacular–and terrible–beauty.
• Krugman on Kitchens Technological innovation is everywhere, except in the productivity numbers or the kitchen.
• The Height Gap Americans haven’t grown taller in fifty years. Everybody else has. Why?
• The Inequality That Matters Tyler Cowen has a pessimistic take on the implications for inequality of public efforts to mitigate systemic risk.
• The Science of Human Nature David Brooks gives an overview of exciting possibilities in brain science. Not enough on the evolutionary origins of our mental capabilities, but a good, short read.

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