He is a Catholic who sees society not as an agglomeration of random Randian individualists but as part of a community, part of a whole.

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Houston has oil and gas, but also NASA and the Texas Medical Centre, an agglomeration of 47 not-for-profit hospitals, medical schools and other institutions.

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Countries must be integrated enough to make agglomeration feasible, but not so integrated that it becomes unnecessary.

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The forces that encourage agglomeration, the authors argue, should be strongest when economies are somewhat, but not completely, integrated.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus