Thompson town, when they say, in effect, through their supply price of labor, that they do not care where they live? If it is unlikely that organized labor would be willing to experiment with geographical wage differentials sufficient to induce the relocation of industry, the national public policy issue would seem to be whether alternative ways might be found to register labor cost differentials that would guide production into locational patterns that would better reflect household living preferences (i.e., raise real wages). How much money wage (after taxes) would various groups of workers trade for the objective and subjective gains from living in smaller places, if a stable way of accomplishing this could be found -- cut-throat competition in wages prevented? Urban Economic Scale and Local Government We have had a number of inconclusive studies on the relationship between city size and public expenditures, and by implication the efficiency of the local public sector. Those local public services that are like, or are in fact, public utilities (e.g. water, sewage disposal and public transportation) do show economies of scale up to populations of medium size. But the cost functions of the more

DOI link for Thompson town, when they say, in effect, through their supply price of labor, that they do not care where they live? If it is unlikely that organized labor would be willing to experiment with geographical wage differentials sufficient to induce the relocation of industry, the national public policy issue would seem to be whether alternative ways might be found to register labor cost differentials that would guide production into locational patterns that would better reflect household living preferences (i.e., raise real wages). How much money wage (after taxes) would various groups of workers trade for the objective and subjective gains from living in smaller places, if a stable way of accomplishing this could be found -- cut-throat competition in wages prevented? Urban Economic Scale and Local Government We have had a number of inconclusive studies on the relationship between city size and public expenditures, and by implication the efficiency of the local public sector. Those local public services that are like, or are in fact, public utilities (e.g. water, sewage disposal and public transportation) do show economies of scale up to populations of medium size. But the cost functions of the more

Thompson town, when they say, in effect, through their supply price of labor, that they do not care where they live? If it is unlikely that organized labor would be willing to experiment with geographical wage differentials sufficient to induce the relocation of industry, the national public policy issue would seem to be whether alternative ways might be found to register labor cost differentials that would guide production into locational patterns that would better reflect household living preferences (i.e., raise real wages). How much money wage (after taxes) would various groups of workers trade for the objective and subjective gains from living in smaller places, if a stable way of accomplishing this could be found -- cut-throat competition in wages prevented? Urban Economic Scale and Local Government We have had a number of inconclusive studies on the relationship between city size and public expenditures, and by implication the efficiency of the local public sector. Those local public services that are like, or are in fact, public utilities (e.g. water, sewage disposal and public transportation) do show economies of scale up to populations of medium size. But the cost functions of the more