Session on Week 3

Reading: Introduction chapter of “The New Geography of Jobs”, by Enrico Moretti

Questions to discuss about the content of the text:

• Education
• Income segregation linked to educational segregation
• Shift from a secondary to a tertiary economy based on services. Why? What’s the role of a more productive industry on this?
• Innovation: relevance and larger effects on growth
• The role of Geography in innovation and the economy. The “dead of distance”? How does this connect to previous readings in this course?

And methodological aspects:

• Differences in the tone about this text and the one we read by Storper
• How does the author approach the issues he talks about?
• What is the perspective he takes to understand the problems and issues he will cover in the book?
• What is his view on the role of Economics and Geography to understand the fate of cities/regions?

The essay

• Ask about how it went in general
• Main hurdles and things they struggled with
• Aspects they found particularly useful