How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus)

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How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus)

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Mar 21, 2021

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In a word: networks. Once it embraced information as its main currency, New York was able to climb out of a deep fiscal (and psychic) pit. Will that magic trick still work after Covid? In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, guest host Kurt Andersen interviews Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation.

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Mar 21, 2021

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