Why Companies Are Always Dying and Cities Are Hard to Kill

timessquare 0 Why Companies Are Always Dying and Cities Are Hard to KillThis is from a New York Times article on Geoffrey West, a theoretical physicist who has applied his theorizing to further our understanding of how cities work. Although the entire article is compelling, in the final section Mr. West offers a theory about the life span of the corporation:



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