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Thomas Friedman writes that the technological forces of globalization are making the world flat. Richard Florida's research indicates that the world is actually very spiky - that the benefits of globalization are unevenly distributed globally.
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Like Jason’s mythic quest for the Golden Fleece, the new economic landscape is being conquered less by policy makers, global investors, and multinational corporate behemoths than by legions of modern day Argonauts –
An interactive census map shows how population is shifting in the U.S. overall, by domestic migration, by natural increase, and by immigration. Accompanied by audio analysis by William Frey of the Brookings Institute.
Judging by a recommendation from Ted Lucas and AnnaLee Saxenian's body of work, I'm moving The New Argonauts to the top of my reading list.
Michael Barone of U.S. News & World Report explains how the shifting of the population in the U.S. as well as immigration inflows is changing the political landscape of the country. There is also strategic business insight in these shifts.
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Commerce in the Scriptures is the story of cities: Ur, Tyre, Sidon, Babylon. Kotkin examines what makes a city great, and the three purposes of a city: spiritual, political, economic.
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