The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)
Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)Pub date: 2025-10-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat drives the seeming relentless dynamism of Tokyo? Is there something special about Japanese culture? Joe McReynolds, co-author of Emergent Tokyo, argues that the secret to Tokyo's energy and attractiveness as a place to live and visit comes from policies that allow Tokyo to emerge from the bottom up. Post-war black markets evolved into today's yokocho--dense clusters of…
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