The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy

By artappraiser on Sat, 12/15/2018 - 9:50pm |

A good piece by Eduardo Porter on the decline of rural America. Like him. I find it hard to believe that any of the proposals being offered would do much to turn this around 1/ https://t.co/1gBee7gh3j
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 15, 2018

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/14/opinion/rural-america-trump-decline.html

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Krugman's thread of 3 other tweeted comments inspired by the piece:

One point I find interesting: around two decades ago, there was a debate about whether information technology would promote or reduce urban concentration, e.g. this paper by Gaspar and Glaeser 2/ https://www.nber.org/papers/w5562

At this point the evidence is clear: IT has fostered more concentration, not less, although some people are moving to the country and telecommuting (as long as there's a cute coffee shop nearby) 3/

Forget the Suburbs, It’s Country or Bust/For some New Yorkers, being priced out of the city means it’s time to move to the woods.

But a true rural revival seems very unlikely. And while moving to the big city may help many individuals, those who can't or won't move are going to be bitter for a long time 4/

by artappraiser on Sat, 12/15/2018 - 9:57pm

It's a pendulum. It costs $1000 to rent a U-Haul in the Bay Area now - rents can make you homeless. IT clusters will build elsewhere, remote/distance work will cintinue to grow, moms will still do more work online from home... but it's spotty.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/16/2018 - 2:16am

Hmmm, 1 Silicon Valley guy gets it...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/16/ro-khanna-iowa-tech-jobs...

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/16/2018 - 12:48pm

More to the point:

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/16/2018 - 2:48pm

Where'd you get that? (The image url is not helpful as to figuring it out.) I'd like to check out what else they got to say...

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/16/2018 - 6:54pm

Terrible terrible maps. They got nothin' to say cause they're in the pre-lingual era - visual panache.
https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 9:47am

not bad, thank you (ya know a picture is worth a thousand words, right?)

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 9:54am

C'mon, you know a picture's worth whatever the trending author & venue & auction house can manage to get.
recent white dude? f'get it. Play the diversity angle. And words? who needs 'em. short meme, ok, but a thousand of them? you're kidding, right?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 10:58am

Some rural job growth:

Outer suburbs still have the fastest job growth.

An important gap is narrowing a bit: job growth accelerated in rural areas.

New BLS QCEW for 2018 Q2. pic.twitter.com/TwFGGsncK9
— Jed Kolko (@JedKolko) December 18, 2018

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 8:37am

The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy

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