Pro Commerce advocate, Michael Phillips, has an interesting piece on how promoting commerce can make a city prosper.
The question of whether government policy can fortify commerce or stultify commerce has a very simple answer: it can. The empirical proof is the town of Emeryville.
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The difference: Berkeley is run on the principles of Cuba, by Left wing ideologues and Oakland is run on the systems common in Nigeria, corrupt-cronyism.
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There you have it: empirical, visual evidence of what works and what doesn't work. Pro commerce is prosperity, anti-commerce is crime, depression, boredom and malaise.
And a nice fly over video of Emeryville:
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