Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…That’s just not at all the way that I think. Say there’re some people who just aren’t that productive. They’re priced out of cities. They move to suburban or exurban areas. Social services are weaker, the bus network doesn’t work so well, there are problems getting your car fixed at an affordable price, and in some ways, their poverty problems become worse. Should we build suburbs to be better geared to handle people who will have low incomes? Ideally, the answer is you want political or public policy-based reasons to relocate, but I don’t have a view beyond that in where I want poor people or rich people to locate. I think, in general, it’s a matter for their individual choice. If you’re telling me that it’s much more expensive to deal with poor people in suburban areas — something which I’m not totally confident that it is, but certainly, I believe that access to public transit is one reason why poor people tend to live in cities, then maybe you want to lean slightly against suburbanization of poverty. But this is an area which I would have very little confidence in terms of applying on any public policy whatsoever. It just doesn’t feel to me like I have a strong view on where people should live.…

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