Robert Neuwirth
Autor de Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World
Obras de Robert Neuwirth
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The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town? (2006) — Contribuidor — 33 copias
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Neuwirth is making a case for the free market, as evidenced by the play on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and indeed a quote from Smith's seminal economic work introduces each chapter. However Neuwirth doesn't evangelize and his case never crosses into the heavy-handed. He does make a strong case for engagement with the underground, a kind of quasi-legitimacy that allows formal institutions to operate alongside the informal markets and trade associations, rather than treating them as useless criminals.
This isn't the capitalism of the brand we've come to expect in the West, dominated by large firms operating in close cahoots with civilian government, but rather the original entrepreneurism: the informal can-do make-it-happen spirit that should, ideally, define free market enterprise. Neuwirth is sympathetic to their cause and advocates for measures to negate some of the undesirable aspects of System D, while recognizing and promoting the obvious benefits of informality.
All in all, an interesting read both for its look at the inner workings of the underground and an alternative to the way most of us are used to doing things.… (más)