Jacobs’ economic development thinking was not a naive localism as Alter describes. It also wasn’t Sewell’s top-down example — growing from first meeting local demand. 1/2
— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) October 9, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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She was interested e.g in how,in Japan a complex network of small scale shops maintaining and repairing imported bicycles developed into the expertise that allowed it to replace imported bikes with Japanese designed and built bikes and from there export high quality world-beater bikes globally. 2/2
— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) October 9, 2026 at 9:37 AM