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a
200000
180000
160000
140000
Other supporng services
Finance & insurance
Informaon
Manufacturing
Professional services
Retail
120000
100000
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
b
140000
120000
Accommodaon& food
Other supporng services
Construcon
Educaon
Government
Health care
Other services
Retail
Transportaon
Wholesale
100000
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Fig. 18.8
(a) Tradable sectors: earnings per employee (in 2007 dollars) in Boston Metro (b)
Non-tradable sectors: earnings per employee (in 2007 dollars) in Boston Metro
tradable and non-tradable sectors gather speed in the 1990s and in the decade of
2000s, income inequalities widen faster in the rising knowledge economies of
New York, Boston and Washington than in the nation.
Concluding Comments
After experiencing robust economic growth in the quarter century following the
end of World War II, the urban economies of the Megalopolis have since
experienced great difficulties in reproducing the economic activities and
arrangements of an industrialized society. In the last three decades, however,
new economic and social relations have emerged and are being generalized in
