Re:Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)
by sgift on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:27PM
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Space is limited, demand is not. Physical reality trumps economic wish-thinking every time. Most of the time, the lack of space is the root problem, not some governmental boogeyman.
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Re:Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)
by darksaints on Sunday March 31, 2019 @04:06PM
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Saying that we have a lack of space in San Francisco (or any American city) is like closing your eyes and saying the sun doesn't exist anymore. It's a deliberate nonsensical denial of reality. In order to say such absurd nonsense, you have to pretend that denser cities do not exist.
Re:Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)
by mcguire on Sunday March 31, 2019 @04:37PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
If you ignore "those cities not a part of a larger city's metropolitan area," it's (6,000/km^2) between New York City (10,000/km^2) and Boston (5,000/km^2). It's approximately the same density as Queens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_cities_...
It's much less than Paris (21,000/km^2), Athens, Barcelona, and a bunch of other European cities. More than Dublin (5,000/km^2), if that helps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_d...
Got nothing on Manilla, Mumbai (holy shit, Mumbai!), or Kolkatta.
But what the hell's up with Guttenberg, NJ?