Showing posts with label Edward Glaeser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Glaeser. Show all posts
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Glaeser... Glaeser... Where have I heard that name before?

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Joseph's last post has got me thinking that it might be a good time for a quick Edward Glaeser retrospective. Glaeser is, unquestiona...
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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Utopian urbanists and the will of God

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Here's a hypothetical discussion I'd like you consider, not because it could ever happen but because I think it makes an interesti...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

One of Krugman's talents

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...is the ability to dig up or create a simple picture that effectively rebuts a popular but flawed narrative. For example, take the proflig...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Cheap Beer, Paradoxical Dice, and the Unfounded Morality of Economists

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Sometimes a concept can be so intuitively obvious that it actually becomes more difficult to teach and discuss. Take transitivity. We say th...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

What exactly are the localized benefits of a university?

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I grew up in a small university town and I can say definitively it was a great environment. There were plays and concerts and speakers. Whe...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Another New Haven thought

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Matt Yglesias wonders if looking at just New Haven alone is the wrong unit of analysis as the surrounding county is quite prosperous. I th...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Credit where credit is due

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I have resumed reading Edward Glaeser's book Triumph of the City . I am not always a fan of Dr. Glaeser's arguments but his discus...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Make that 300... No, make that 400 years

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From Edward Glaeser : The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York is often credited with saying that the way to create a great c...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

More Glaeserian causality

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We all occasionally make too much of anecdotes and jump too quickly from correlation to causality, but with Edward Glaeser, this sort of thi...
Monday, March 14, 2011

The paradox of New Haven

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Mark has been discussing Edward Glaeser and his comments on how universities can create urban prosperity . Now, I am a big fan of universit...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Universities and Growth

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Mark had a really nice post about one of Edward Glaeser's points. Mark points out that it seems odd that Glaeser overlooked the school...
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

If you don't post it someone else will

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I was planning to do a post on these comments by Edward Glaeser, but I decided to put it off because: a) Joseph told me he was reading the ...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Edward Glaeser

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Two quotes from the first chapter of his new book, triumph of the city: All of the world's older cities have suffered the great scourges...
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