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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

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In 2007 Todd Davis, CEO of the identity theft protection company LifeLock, decided to pursue a great new marketing effort. The Cartoon Network is known as much for outrageous marketing as it is for outrageous content. Of course the passes were only good for use on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Identity Theft Role Reversal.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

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Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities.