I want to come back to this real quick because it's indicative of an extremely common error in economic reasoninghttps://twitter.com/380kmh/status/840232233621442560 …
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Replying to @380kmh
The mistake is one Jacobs identified in 1984: to think that nations, rather than cities, are salient units for economic analysis
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Replying to @380kmh
Economic growth, technological development, and material progress are all *urban* phenomena. If they succeed, they later spread to country.
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Replying to @380kmh
Economic growth is primarily tied to increased energy availability, which is not necessarily urban.
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Replying to @imaginary_nums
harnessing and developing new energy sources is an exclusively urban activity which only gets ruralized later to scale up
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Replying to @380kmh
maybe. another way to look at it: increased energy availability allows for urban development. urban economy 2ndry to energy
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Replying to @imaginary_nums
precisely backwards--urban development increases available energy per capita (same way it did for food in Neolithic)
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agriculture was an urban invention, which later moved into the countryside to scale up--the way energy does now
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