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Category Archives: Cities
Editorial – What it takes to become filthy rich
(March 21, 1999) Some fabulously wealthy people inherited their riches. Others earned their wealth through their exceptional skills. But a significant number of the extremely rich — perhaps the majority of those who made it on their own — lucked into it. Continue reading
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The Book of the Fair: fairs of the past
(March 15, 1999) Before and during the middle ages fairs were of unquestionable benefit, bringing distant communities into closer contact with civilization, and affording an opportunity for comparing home-made and foreign goods. Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Culture
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What would happen if we had a four day work week?
(December 21, 1998) Labor costs would decrease. Stanford Business School Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer recently noted in the Harvard Business Review that most managers don’t know the difference between labor rates, which only concerns inputs, and labor costs, which consider inputs as a radio of outputs. Continue reading
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Planners from hell – Mexico City’s cup doesn’t runneth over
(December 21, 1998) Although Mexico City looms large in the Mexican economy — hosting 45 per cent of the country’s industry and producing 38 per cent of its GDP — the Western Hemisphere’s largest metropolis has water problems to match its economic and geographic stature. Continue reading
Posted in NaturalResources_Water, Regulation
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Discussion Group – Cod don’t vote
(December 21, 1998) On July 2, 1992, Canada’s fisheries minister banned cod fishing off the northeast coast of Newfoundland and off the southern half of Labrador. The northern cod stock, once one of the richest in the world, had collapsed Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 