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Edward Glaeser

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    Edward Glaeser

    Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He regularly teaches microeconomic theory, and occasionally urban and public economics. He has served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and as Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He has published dozens of papers on cities' economic growth, law, and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992. His books include Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium (Oxford University Press, 2008); Rethinking Federal Housing Policy (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008); and Triumph of the City (Penguin Press, 2011).

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