This Is What A City

It May Be Romantic To Search For The Salves Of Society's Ills In Slow-moving Rustic Surroundings, Or Among Innocent, Unspoiled Provincials, If Such Exist, But It Is A Waste Of Time.

Why Did I Become A Canadian Citizen? Not Because I Was Rejecting Being A U.s. Citizen. At The Time When I Became A Canadian Citizen, You Couldn't Be A Dual Citizen. Now You Can. So I Had To Be One Or The Other. But The Reason I Became A Canadian Citizen Was Because It Simply Seemed So Abnormal To Me Not To Be Able To Vote.

Innovating Economies Expand And Develop. Economies That Do Not Add New Kinds Of Goods And Services, But Continue Only To Repeat Old Work, Do Not Expand Much Nor Do They, By Definition, Develop.

Streets And Their Sidewalks-the Main Public Places Of A City-are Its Most Vital Organs.

Nations Are Political And Military Entities, And So Are Blocs Of Nations. But It Doesn't Necessarily Follow From This That They Are Also The Basic, Salient Entities Of Economic Life Or That They Are Particularly Useful For Probing The Mysteries Of Economic Structure, The Reasons For Rise And Decline Of Wealth. Indeed, The Failure Of National Governments And Blocs Of Nations To Force Economic Life To Do Their Bidding Suggests Some Sort Of Essential Irrelevance.