New York Times, Economist Ed Glaeser and Detroit's Strategy

[BShea]

I kinda like your go-for-broke debating style, but shouldn't we at this point agree to disagree? I think you're not facing facts, and you think I'm a commie-pinko-liberal fag. Where in all this are we going to make any progress?

Ditto, with you thinking I'm a bloodthirsty fascist warmonger/simpleton tool of Wall Street Fat Cats[[TM), LOL.

[Guideboat]

I applaud you both on your debate. Very interesting with without sliding too far toward ad hominim attacks. You two need to go out and have a beer. I think you'd get along swimmingly.

[Detroitnerd]

I applaud you both on your debate. Very interesting with without sliding too far toward ad hominim attacks. You two need to go out and have a beer. I think you'd get along swimmingly.

Haha. Thanks, Guideboat, for ending all this with something to smile over. I wouldn't mind a beer with BShea, but I'm guessing we'd have to go Dutch instead of round-for-round.

[rjlj]

A Conversation With Edward L. Glaeser and his new book, "Triumph of the City" with discussions about Detroit.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ard-l-glaeser/

[iheartthed]

Education levels can change far more quickly at the city level than at the nation level because of migration. A city can attract skilled, entrepreneurial people in much less time than it can produce them and, unfortunately, a city can also lose important parts of its human capital base with astonishing rapidity.

In other words, make the city attractive to outsiders.