Thompson federal funds if they balk at raising pollution standards, consoli dating services or socially integrating populations. Related to the previous point but worthy of special mention is the tendency for industrial diversification through the con-commitant convergence in educational, occupational and income characteristics, to significantly reduce the inter-regional spill-overs that occur through migration. If large metropolitan areas come to trade populations with very similar socio-economic pro-files, a major source of unintended inter-regional redistribution of income and wealth would be averted, such as occurs when small towns give up the top of their high school graduating class and take on responsibility for displaced rural migrants with only a few years of poor schooling. All in all, a nation of big cities greatly simplifies Federal policy, or at least it would if these large economic cities were internally competent and effective as local governments. If we do continue moving toward becoming a nation of very large metropolitan areas (economic cities), then the cutting edge of public policy will be less to find an optimum system of cities and more to create an optin in system of govern-ments. 27 May 1971

DOI link for Thompson federal funds if they balk at raising pollution standards, consoli dating services or socially integrating populations. Related to the previous point but worthy of special mention is the tendency for industrial diversification through the con-commitant convergence in educational, occupational and income characteristics, to significantly reduce the inter-regional spill-overs that occur through migration. If large metropolitan areas come to trade populations with very similar socio-economic pro-files, a major source of unintended inter-regional redistribution of income and wealth would be averted, such as occurs when small towns give up the top of their high school graduating class and take on responsibility for displaced rural migrants with only a few years of poor schooling. All in all, a nation of big cities greatly simplifies Federal policy, or at least it would if these large economic cities were internally competent and effective as local governments. If we do continue moving toward becoming a nation of very large metropolitan areas (economic cities), then the cutting edge of public policy will be less to find an optimum system of cities and more to create an optin in system of govern-ments. 27 May 1971

Thompson federal funds if they balk at raising pollution standards, consoli dating services or socially integrating populations. Related to the previous point but worthy of special mention is the tendency for industrial diversification through the con-commitant convergence in educational, occupational and income characteristics, to significantly reduce the inter-regional spill-overs that occur through migration. If large metropolitan areas come to trade populations with very similar socio-economic pro-files, a major source of unintended inter-regional redistribution of income and wealth would be averted, such as occurs when small towns give up the top of their high school graduating class and take on responsibility for displaced rural migrants with only a few years of poor schooling. All in all, a nation of big cities greatly simplifies Federal policy, or at least it would if these large economic cities were internally competent and effective as local governments. If we do continue moving toward becoming a nation of very large metropolitan areas (economic cities), then the cutting edge of public policy will be less to find an optimum system of cities and more to create an optin in system of govern-ments. 27 May 1971