With the new geography of books moretti shows how in an increasingly globalised world counter intuitively a small number of cities gains greater and greater importance the us reality has shown that businesses tend to group together in hubs cities which end up offering a high density of jobs and workforce. The new geography of jobs is an economic book that is surprisingly short and easy to read rarities in economic texts probably its my first time reading a book like this excluding freakonomics but i doubt other books are as clear and concise as this. An unprecedented redistribution of jobs population and wealth is under way in america and it is likely to accelerate in the years to come americas new economic map shows growing differences. The new geography of jobs takes us back to americas industrial heyday when great manufacturing cities like detroit were the wonder of the world