@paulkrugman Not one industry. Finance, yes, but also all media, tertiary legal services, advertising, & much more. See Chapters 18 and 19 of https://t.co/QSGgzlvY3r
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@AthertonKD I just started this book, which is explicitly indebted to nature's metropolis, and one very interesting argument is that the Erie canal mattered not so much for connecting the great lakes barge route to the hudson but for opening the upstate NY
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@paulkrugman Port employment was concentrated in port cities. The loss of those jobs to containerization coincided with New York City's steepest overall job losses. https://t.co/xSjX0vyQ6f
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OUT NOW: This book presents an overview of #NewYork's economic history in a single volume: https://t.co/pnmAVSfO7w #PublishedWithPalgrave #EconHist #urbaneconomics https://t.co/5OCKU17u4s