Remember author Thomas Friedman's argument that the world was flat, and where you lived didn't matter, because with e-mail, cell phones, and the Internet, you could do business all over the world?

"It wasn't supposed to be this way. As the global economy shifted from manufacturing to innovation, geography was supposed to matter less. But the pundits were wrong. A new map is being drawn - the ...

If you want to understand how to create jobs -- not just a few at a time, but hundreds of thousands at once -- look to Texas and North Dakota. Together, these two states account for a little more than ...

Moretti's The New Geography of Jobs is the perfect companion to Bill Bishop's fine book The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. Where Bishop talks about the social ...

A new book was released today by University of California at Berkeley Economics Professor and Fulbright Fellow, Enrico Bonetti, titled The New Geography Of Jobs. This young economist's research has ...

Cincinnati-based Fifth Third completes merger with Comerica, becoming 9th-largest US bank Fifth Third Bancorp has finalized its merger with Comerica Incorporated, creating the ninth-largest bank in ...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the price of housing has risen in some relatively cheap places in the U.S. and fallen in some expensive ones. These dynamics were already apparent before COVID-19, ...

When the economy turns sluggish, where are the job opportunities? All over the map, if you've got a graduate degree in geography. That's been the experience of graduate students who completed their ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The U.S. Department of Labor reported last week that nationwide unemployment has now hit the lowest point since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. Around 498,000 ...