Rich metropolitan areas, like rich countries, have higher price levels than poor ones.
The number of accelerators has dramatically increased over the past few years, with many new programs appearing in large metropolitan areas rich with startups.
So we need to recognise that part of what is going on is a rising contribution to production from scarce land in big, rich metropolitan areas.
A UKIP volunteer distributing election posters in the city center sneers that Labour "represents nobody, other than rich metropolitan liberals".
The class that he now represents – a middle-aged, capital-rich, metropolitan elite – doesn't give a toss about you.
"It's in the middle of one of the richest metropolitan areas in the country," said Marc Weinstein, the owner of Amoeba Records.
That's Los Angeles.On the more substantive question of why Washington has become the richest metropolitan area in the country, Dylan Matthews has just written the definitive blog post.
In the new world order, if a celebrity speaks out in support of immigrants, or criticises Britain's decision to leave the EU, they are immediately branded out of touch and part of a super-rich metropolitan elite.
But although Barcelona had fallen into stagnation before the Games and indeed needed a large-scale economic stimulus to modernize itself, it was already a major metropolitan area with a rich cultural history, not a far-flung spa town on the Black Sea.
For access to the rich New York metropolitan area.
