Alan Berube, a senior fellow and deputy director of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, is the co-author, with Joseph Parilla, of MetroTrade: Cities Return to their Roots in the Global Economy.
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Alan Berube
Commentaries by Alan Berube
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The Return of the Trading City
WASHINGTON, DC – Recently, a group of officials gathered to plot a new trade strategy. It was a typical trade-policy discussion: the partici…
The Return of the Trading City
Nathan Coppedge: It is my observation that the recent branding of citizens as consumers has failed to tap into the potential to use or utilize or exploit citizen roles for the purposes of commerce and trade. My ape…
The Return of the Trading City
Frank O'Callaghan: The economic unit is not the city. It is the corporation. The described forum is, like many such fora, a device for corporations to wield municipal, social and communal resources in the interests of t…