By Peter Onear August 14, 2007 I recently heard a university president say that somehow she had become the de facto leader of economic development in the region around her university.

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Catherine Rampell, economics reporter, The New York Times: The chart above is an updated version of one that Joshua Lehner, an economist at the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, posted last year.

The long-term vision for the next decade, he continued, is to develop the world's first "economic graph," or mapping the global economy digitally. "Increasingly, jobs are fragmented.