Redundancy Is Expensive But Indispensable.

Redundancy Is Expensive But Indispensable.

Nations Are Political And Military Entities, And So Are Blocs Of Nations. But It Doesn't Necessarily Follow From This That They Are Also The Basic, Salient Entities Of Economic Life Or That They Are Particularly Useful For Probing The Mysteries Of Economic Structure, The Reasons For Rise And Decline Of Wealth. Indeed, The Failure Of National Governments And Blocs Of Nations To Force Economic Life To Do Their Bidding Suggests Some Sort Of Essential Irrelevance.

People Who Try To Predict The Future By Extrapolating In A Line Of More Of What Exists - They Are Always Wrong.

Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To Be Trading With Other Cities.

The More Successfully A City Mingles Everyday Diversity Of Uses And Users In Its Everyday Streets, The More Successfully, Casually (and Economically) Its People Thereby Enliven And Support Well-located Parks That Can Thus Give Back Grace And Delight To Their Neighborhoods Instead Of Vacuity.