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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85401.Cities_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Cities and the Wealth of Nations" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1171059795m/85401.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85401.Cities_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Cities and the Wealth of Nations</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17285.Jane_Jacobs">Jane Jacobs</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22042035?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>This book's now a little dated, but its core ideas -- that wealth is largely created by innovation in cities (well, metropolitan areas in the current terminology) and that certain types of subsidy policies can decrease overall economic utility -- may have been expressed first or most clearly here. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1064460?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>