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Catherine Tumber

Catherine Tumber is author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World.

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Small, Green, and Good

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future.
Catherine Tumber
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The Reckoning

On the proper place for religion in politics.

Catherine Tumber

Forum Responses

Response: Response to Effective Altruism

Peter Singer’s case for effective altruism brings to mind Andrew Carnegie, or, rather, the well-known criticism, which Carnegie himself anticipated, that the steel magnate’s philanthropic largesse was made possible by squeezing value...
Catherine Tumber

Response: Response to Finance and Manufacturing

In contrast with the technological fatalism of recent books on the state of U.S. manufacturing—Vaclav Smil’s Made in the U.S.A. (2013) and Andrew McAfee and Erik Bryjolfsson’s The Second Machine Age (2014) come to mind—the Production...
Catherine Tumber

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