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I feel like this is at least the third article that's showed up here recently making the claim that "cities are more important than countries for economic devel
by powera 10y ago
I feel like this is at least the third article that's showed up here recently making the claim that "cities are more important than countries for economic development" with no real argument behind it.
- mwilcox 10y agoIt's all based on the same book (Connectography). I highly recommend instead reading The Stack that just came out from MIT Press, which gives a much deeper analysis on the relationship between cities, software and geopolitics: http://thestack.org http://thestack.org
- natrius 10y agoThis is the book I didn't know I was looking for. Thanks.
- mwilcox 10y agoEthereum gets a mention :-)
- toyg 10y agoHardcover: £25.99 Kindle: £23.99 Does it really cost £2.00 to print a hardcover and ship it across the Atlantic, or is MITPress taking the metaphorical mickey?
- m-i-l 10y agoThere was a big discussion about the relative price of eBooks on HN recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11207209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11207209 . Points include (i) big publishing houses trying to prevent discounting of eBooks, and (ii) physical production not being the main cost of books.
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- SixSigma 10y agoDo you really value books based on the price of wood pulp & the cost of shipping ?
- ghaff 10y ago>Does it really cost £2.00 to print a hardcover and ship it across the Atlantic That's actually probably pretty close to correct. Not defending the Kindle pricing but printing and distribution of physical books is a lot cheaper than many assume it is.
- wastedhours 10y agoeBooks and physical books are taxed differently in the UK, so the prices will be much closer together.
- miraj 10y agoThanks. This looks like a good read!
- dredmorbius 10y agoFor an earlier take, Jane Jacobs, Cities and the Wealth of Nations. https://www.worldcat.org/title/cities-and-the-wealth-of-nations-principles-of-economic-life/oclc/10207383&referer=brief_results https://www.worldcat.org/title/cities-and-the-wealth-of-nati...