WARNING SPOILERS ABOUT THE NEWEST AVENGERS MOVIE AND 100 YEAR OLD ECONOMICS AHEADThanos is the bad guy in Avengers: Infinity War, and his basic plan is to kill half of all of the life in the universe. This is a very, very wrong story about the sources of economic growth. So that's agglomeration economies, and they are crucial to productivity growth. Consult Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth or many of the dozens of papers written about why productivity growth has slowed down. Thanos should have taken a tour of Detroit before concluding that a 50% vacancy rate is the key to economic growth.

Source: Forbes May 27, 2018 12:33 UTC