What Joel Kotkin thinks about capitalism
American writer on cities and demography; Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University. Executive editor of NewGeography.com until it closed at the end of 2025; author of The Human City (2016) and The Coming of Neo-Feudalism (2020); argues for suburbs and dispersed growth.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Joel Kotkin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe artisanal economy fits with a rebellion against capitalism's machine-driven sameness.
Their wordsYet viewed in a wider lens, this artisanal economy fits well with a rebellion directed against capitalism that produces the machine-driven sameness that could be amplified by the rise of Artificial Intelligence.