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America's Rising SunJoel Kotkin
The doomsayers ignore unique strengths that could spark a resurgence in our third centu...


What Works: Three snapshots of public action that is making a difference---and where to go from here
Back to the Future with New LaborFred Siegel and Joel Kotkin

California, Inc. (1982)Joel Kotkin and Paul Grabowicz
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

Capital of CapitalismJoel Kotkin
The Making of a Great Modern Economy.

The Center FoldsJoel Kotkin
High Noon for the New Democrats

A Chinese Century?Joel Kotkin
The American Enterprise, July 1998, pp. 26-28

Cities Need LeadersJoel Kotkin
Cities Only Grow and Thrive When Their Better-Off Citizens Are Willing to Shoulder Publ...

The City: A Global History (2005)Joel Kotkin
1 Review

What Kind of America Will Generation X Inherit?
Cold Water on Today's Prophets of Glee.Joel Kotkin and David Friedman

The Difference PrincipleJoel Kotkin
Can Ethnic Identity and Individual Freedom Coexist?

Don't Dismiss the DemocratsJoel Kotkin
Hope Outside the Beltway

God and the CityJoel Kotkin and Karen Speicher


Hollywood's Better SideJoel Kotkin
You Know Tinseltown's Famous Jerks. Now Meet the Industry's Normal People and Some of T...

Institute ViewJoel Kotkin
Vive la central city

It's the Culture, StupidJoel Kotkin
Evidence from America's Boom Cities Shows That the Recipe for Business Prosperity Conta...
The American Enterprise, July 1997, pp. 68-72

L.A. vs. N.Y.C.Joel Kotkin
In Multimedia and Entertainment, the Battle Is on between Crass Hollywood and Snobby Ma...

L.A.'s Engine of GrowthJoel Kotkin
The Small Business Revolution to the Rescue

Make Way for the Urban ConfederatesJoel Kotkin
Cities Have Fattened Themselves by Gobbling Up Surrounding Suburbs. But Smaller Jurisdi...

Miracle by Default?Joel Kotkin
Why the City of Angels Works

The Moldy Massachusetts MiracleJoel Kotkin
The economic prescriptions of the Dukakis/Kerry administration that received credit for...

Movers & ShakersJoel Kotkin
How Immigrants are Reviving Neighborhoods Given up for Dead

NeededJoel Kotkin
A Progressive Vision for Los Angeles

The New Geography (2001)Joel Kotkin
How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape
1 Review, 1 Readable

The New Left Takes Over American UnionsJoel Kotkin
Flower Children 2, Hard Hats 1. The long, Strange Trip of American Labor.
The American Enterprise, May 1997, pp. 58-61

The Next Hundred Million (2010)Joel Kotkin
America in 2050
1 Review, 1 Readable

Older Suburbs (2001)Joel Kotkin
Crabgrass Slums or New Urban Frontier?
8 Chapters, 54pp

Paths to ProsperityJoel Kotkin
Many journalists believe yuppies, bohemians, and rock bands are the keys to local econo...

A Prescription for Senile LiberalismJoel Kotkin
Less Howard Dean, more FDR


Race to DefeatJohn J. Miller and Joel Kotkin
How the Black Caucus Elected Newt Gingrich Speaker

Rediscovering Lewis and Clark TerritoryJoel Kotkin
When agriculture and manufacturing declined during the last century, a diaspora of Midw...

Features
The Redistribution of HonorJoel Kotkin and Fred Siegel
Winners and losers in the postwar era

Politics
Reefer Madness RevisitedJoel Kotkin and Dorothy J. Samuels


Sects and the CityJoel Kotkin
The new urbanists have forgotten thousands of years of history

SoundingsJoel Kotkin
Boomtown

The State of the NationJoel Kotkin
Americans Settle Down

There Is an AlternativeJoel Kotkin
Will "Wired Workers" Lead a Push for Privatization

The Third Century (1988)Joel Kotkin and Yoriko Kishimoto
America's Renaissance in the Asian Era
2 Reviews, 2 Readable

Time to Think Small?Joel Kotkin
What Does the Big Apple Need Most in Order to Remain a Business Capital? A Good Does of...
The American Enterprise, June 2002, pp. 36-39

Too Much FrothJoel Kotkin and Fred Siegel
The latte quotient is a bad strategy for building middle-class cities

Tribes (1993)Joel Kotkin
How Race, Religion, and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy
5 Reviews, 1 Readable

Welcome to the CasbahJoel Kotkin
The Latest Injection of Savvy and Sweat into America's Economy Comes from the Middle East.


Why the Elite Media Don't Understand AmericaJoel Kotkin and David Friedman
While Americans Surge South and West, Today's In-Bred Media Elites Barely See beyond th...

Will the Chinese Save L.A.?Joel Kotkin
Our Dead-End Urban Areas Are Being Powerfully Renewed by Chinese American Entrepreneurs.
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