So, when we see the same thing on the eastern coast of China -- within countries, a relocation and a concentration of the creative occupations in very narrow concentrated corridors and then the coountry becomes uneven.
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Robert Lucas identified this in his work, On the Mechanics of Economic Development, drawing upon the great work of Jane Jacobs, where the basic mechanism is the human capital externality that, or the human externality that comes when highly talented and creative people locate together.
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That offsets, through productivity improvement, the benefits of outsourcing.
As our rate of fertility and reproduction declines, that competition's gonna get worse.