The New Geography of Jobs Concepts

The New Geography of Jobs

by Enrico Moretti · 21 May 2012 · 403pp · 87,035 words

Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. www.hmhbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moretti, Enrico. The new geography of jobs / Enrico Moretti. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-547-75011-8 1. Labor market—United States. 2. Economic development—United States

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people you meet to the values your children are exposed to. As America’s cities grow apart, it is more important than ever to understand the new geography of jobs. The coming chapters are a voyage through the new economic landscape. We will explore cities that are rising and cities that are dying. We will

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin · 21 Jun 2023 · 248pp · 73,689 words

of cities to the modern world. Ed Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class, Enrico Moretti’s The New Geography of Jobs and many other excellent books over recent years have laid a trail before us, as have canonical works such as Lewis Mumford’s The City

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of Education Statistics data. 43 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2021, ‘The labor market for recent college graduates’ (newyorkfed.org). 44 Moretti, E., 2012, The New Geography of Jobs (First Mariner Books), p. 76. 45 Jain, V., 2019, ‘Case study on territorial development in Japan’, World Bank (worldbank.org). 46 Miwa, N., 2022, ‘High

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Geography, Vol. 2, No. 4. 49 Elliott, L., 2019, ‘HS2 would widen UK north–south divide and should be axed, says report’, Guardian. 50 Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs. 51 Glaeser, E., 2005, ‘Reinventing Boston: 1630–2003’, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 5, No. 2. 52 Shapiro, S., 2015, ‘New species of city discovered

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risk in the Anthropocene: more outbreaks and wider global spread’, Working paper. Moretti, E., 2010, ‘Local multipliers’, American Economic Review, Vol. 100, No. 2. —, 2012, The New Geography of Jobs (First Mariner Books). Morgan, K., 2021, ‘Why in-person workers may be more likely to get promoted’, BBC (bbc.com). Morphet, J., 2013, ‘A city

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words

of China’s oldest and most respected conglomerates. CHAPTER 7: THE GREAT SUPPLY CHAIN WAR 1. Interview with author, July 18, 2015. 2. Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). 3. Josh Tyrangiel, “Tim Cook’s Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks,” Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec. 6, 2012. 4. However, additive manufacturing

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Lie with Maps. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Montgomery, Charles. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Moretti, Enrico. The New Geography of Jobs. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Morris, Charles R. Comeback: America’s New Economic Boom. PublicAffairs, 2013. Morris, Ian. War! What Is It Good For? Conflict and

Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

by Paul Krugman · 28 Jan 2020 · 446pp · 117,660 words

social unraveling. So what is the matter with Trumpland? For the most part I’m in agreement with Berkeley’s Enrico Moretti, whose 2012 book, The New Geography of Jobs, is must reading for anyone trying to understand the state of America. Moretti argues that structural changes in the economy have favored industries that employ

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” (Dixit and Stiglitz), 396–98 monopoly power, 228, 236 monopsony power, 316–17 Moore, John, 147 Moore, Michael, 44, 45 Moore, Roy, 309 Moretti, Enrico, The New Geography of Jobs, 292 mortgage rates, 87 mortgages, subprime, 90–91, 136 “Most Important Thing, The” (Krugman), 327–28 motives, talk about, 8 Moulton, Seth, 76 movement conservatism

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

by Leo Hollis · 31 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 118,314 words

the city was failing to keep up with the demands of the burgeoning creative economy it has spawned. The economist Enrico Moretti has been charting the new geography of jobs in America and his research reveals that the new knowledge workers have a multiplier effect wherever they work. Creative jobs often attract other creative workers

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., p. 303. 8. UN, Creative Economy, UN, 2010, p. 38. 9. Florida, R., Who’s Your City?, Basic Books, 2008, p. 99. 10. Moretti, E., The New Geography of Jobs, Houghton Mifflin, 2012, Introduction. 11. Florida, R., 2008, p. 3. 12. Ibid., p. 71. 13. www.londonlovesbusiness.com/comment/the-debate-is-tech-city-working

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, 2009 Misztal, B., Trust in Modern Society, Polity Press, 1996 Modorov, E., The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World, Penguin, 2011 Moretti, E., The New Geography of Jobs, Houghton Mifflin, 2012 Morris, I., Why the West Rules for Now: the Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future, Profile Books, 2010

Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers

by Jason M. Barr · 13 May 2024 · 292pp · 107,998 words

Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis.” The New Yorker, May 21, 1995. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine-story-crisis. Moretti, Enrico. The New Geography of Jobs. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Mydans, Seth. “Malaysia Looks Down on World from 1,483 Feet.” New York Times, May 2, 1996. https://www.nytimes.com

Social Class in the 21st Century

by Mike Savage · 5 Nov 2015 · 297pp · 89,206 words

northern geographies were increasingly subordinated to the growing power of London and the south-east. Doreen Massey, writing in the mid-1980s, identified that ‘in the new geography of jobs, most of the high-level, high-status and well-paid research, technical and development functions are located in the South and East of England’.21

Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future

by Hal Niedzviecki · 15 Mar 2015 · 343pp · 102,846 words

it another way: own the people who will shape the future, or they might end up owning you. Economist Enrico Moretti writes in his book The New Geography of Jobs: “Globalization and technological progress have turned many physical goods into cheap commodities but have raised the economic return on human capital and innovation. For the

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event, rather than a fringe experience . . . can we really begin to build broader support for programs that lift people in need.”17 In his book, The New Geography of Jobs, economist Enrico Moretti states: “For the first time in recent American history, the average worker has not experienced an improvement in standard of living compared

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tomorrow. This sounds inevitable and sensible—shouldn’t things change, advance, get better? But let’s put it another way; as Enrico Moretti writes in The New Geography of Jobs, “What is a good job today will inevitably become a bad job in the future.”29 For phones it sounds optimistic and promising. Endless upgrade

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. Patent Statistics Chart Calendar Years 1963 - 2014,” n.d., http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm. 14. Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), 38. 15. Sarah McBride, “Startups Jostle for Funding, Attention at South by Southwest,” Reuters, March 11, 2014, http://www.reuters

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, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/11/16/6-things-jeff-bezos-knew-back-in-1997-that-made-amazon-a-go-rilla/. 23. Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs, 11. 24. “Americans Predict a Future Like Science Fiction,” Bits Blog, accessed April 22, 2014, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/americans-predict

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Security,” Associated Press, July 28, 2013, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/exclusive-4-5-us-face-near-poverty-no-work-0. 17. Ibid. 18. Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs, 8. 19. Ross Douthat, “A World Without Work,” The New York Times, February 23, 2013, sec. Opinion / Sunday Review, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02

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., 2. 18. Toffler, Future Shock. 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid., 375. 21. Ibid., 379. 22. Ibid., 377. 23. Toffler, Future Shock. 24. Ibid., 379. 25. Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs, 33. 26. Edgerton, The Shock of the Old. 27. Lucas Mearian, “IBM Smashes Moore’s Law, Cuts Bit Size to 12 Atoms,” Computerworld, January 12

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Next - Get A New Smartphone Every Year from AT&T Wireless,” accessed April 24, 2015, http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/next.html. 29. Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs, 104. 30. Innerarity, The Future and Its Enemies in Defense of Political Hope, 42. CHAPTER 10 1. Christy Foley, Christy Foley Interview, December 10, 2014

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ed. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1994. McLuhan, Marshall, Eric McLuhan, and Frank Zingrone. Essential McLuhan. 1st ed. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1995. Moretti, Enrico. The New Geography of Jobs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. Public Affairs, 2013. Niedzviecki, Hal. The Peep Diaries

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

by Richard Baldwin · 14 Nov 2016 · 606pp · 87,358 words

mobile and those that are internationally immobile. Both matter. Both contribute to national income. But, as Enrico Moretti points out in his must-read book The New Geography of Jobs, good jobs created in G7 nations have a local multiplier effect, which good jobs created by G7 firms abroad do not.5 A Two-Dimensional

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.K. Focus on Steps in Global Value Chains That Really Add Value? ed. David Greenaway (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2012). 5. Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). 6. I first made these points in a 2012 paper: Richard Baldwin, “WTO 2.0: Global Governance of Supply-Chain

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; smuggling; spillovers; tariffs and protectionism; unions, labor Netherlands, 56, 235. See also imperialists New Economic Geography (NEG) , 179, 186–196, 189f, 194f, 208–211, 214 The New Geography of Jobs (Moretti), 228, 233, 235 New Globalization (Phase Four) (second unbundling): control and, 174–175, 176; endogenous growth/New Economic Geography and, 193–196, 194f; industrialization

The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley · 10 Jun 2013

were clear that Applied Sciences NYC would be connected to the particular existing and emerging strengths of the city. As Enrico Moretti points out in The New Geography of Jobs, “Universities are most effective at shaping a local economy when they are part of a larger ecosystem of innovative activity.”61 Before launching a major

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longer periods of time.”49 The counterproposition, that a more skilled workforce accelerates economic growth, is found in (among other works) Enrico Moretti’s book The New Geography of Jobs, which came out in 2012. Moretti argues that metropolitan areas with a high percentage of well-educated workers also tend to attract more highly educated

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(Toronto, Ont.: Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2004), p. 1. 19. Muro and Katz, “The New ‘Cluster Moment,’” p. 5. 20. Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), p. 197. See also Margaret Pugh O’Mara, Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the

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.S. Metropolitan Areas Are Driving National Growth” (Brookings, 2012), p. 7. Unless otherwise noted, all the export information presented is from this source. 49. Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs, p. 60. 50. Ibid., p. 59. 51. Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities (New York: Random House, 1969), p. 48. 52. See, for example, ibid

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,” p. 6. 60. Richard Pérez-Peña, “Two Top Suitors Are Emerging for New Graduate School of Engineering,” New York Times, October 16, 2011. 61. Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs, pp. 196–97. 62. O’Grady and Bowles, “Building New York City’s Innovation Economy,” pp. 6–7. 63. Ibid., p. 6. 10-2151-2

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. 2. 25. Audrey Singer, Robert Suro, and Jill H. Wilson, “Immigration and Poverty in America’s Suburbs” (Brookings, 2011), p. 1. 26. See Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). See also Jonathan Rothwell, “Education, Job Openings, and Unemployment in Metropolitan America” (Brookings, 2012). 27. See “State of Metropolitan America

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. Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013), p. 117. 50. Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs, p. 119. Moretti is too quick to write off communities as beyond recovery. He himself notes that Seattle in the 1970s was a scarred postindustrial

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. 2 (2003): 315–21. Miller, Carol Poh, and Robert Anthony Wheeler. Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796–1996. 2nd ed. Indiana University Press, 1997. Moretti, Enrico. The New Geography of Jobs. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Moynihan, Daniel P., ed. Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government. New York: Random House, 1973. ———. Toward a National

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: building, 194–96; defined, 67; management of, 84–87. See also Collaborative approach; Trading cities New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan, 139 New Federalism, 177 The New Geography of Jobs (Moretti), 36, 102 New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC): and Applied Sciences initiative, 23–24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 36, 37–39; and game