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Concrete gains: America’s big cities are larger than Europe’s. That has important economic consequences

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Free Exchange: Concrete Gains Differences in metropolitan populations may help explain gaps in productivity and incomes. Western Europe’s per-person GDP is 72% of America’s, on a purchasing-power-parity basis. A recent study by the McKinsey Global Institute, the consultancy’s research arm, reckons that some three-quarters of this gap can be chalked …