Is Boston One of the World's Top Ten Most Productive Cities?

Is Boston One of the World’s Top Ten Most Productive Cities? Debatable. A number-crunching blogger over at Slate declared Boston as one of the top ten most-productive cities in the world based on economic output per capita, compiled in part by data from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. What results is a list of generally small- to mid-size metropolitan areas that are heavily involved in high-tech industries or finance. Oh, and Washington, D.C. [Slate]