Boeing’s Uniquely American Right to Take Flight: Edward Glaeser

July 19 (Bloomberg) -- Americans, and their companies, havelong benefited from their freedom to move throughout ourcountry.

In the 19th century, we moved in search of naturalresources, exchanging the stony soil of New England for the richsoil of Iowa. In the 20th century, Americans were more likely tomigrate in search of better political environments, like theblacks who fled the Jim Crow states of the South.