Event

Enrico Moretti: The Geography of Jobs

Friday, May 25 at 7:30 pm
Enrico Moretti says the real divide in America is not a class divide, but a geographical one--where we live matters more today than ever. Moretti, an economics professor at UC Berkeley and author of The New Geography of Jobs, describes how the "three Americas" (big cities, old manufacturing capitals, and the middle) are shifting the economic landscape, with an unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth under way - and, he says, the way we deal with the rise of "brain hubs" (think San Francisco, Boston, Austin, and Durham) and geographic disparities poses the challenge of the century. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. Series media sponsorship provided by PubliCola. Series supported by The Boeing Company, the RealNetworks Foundation, and the True/Brown Foundation.