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Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard, where he also serves as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He studies the economics of cities, and has written scores of urban issues, including the growth of cities, segregation, crime, and housing markets. His most recent works include: Cities, Agglomeration and Spatial Equilibrium, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008); Corruption and Reform: Lessons from Americas Economic History, (jointly edited with C. Goldin), Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (2006); and Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference, (joint with A. Alesina), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992 and has been at Harvard since then. The Mullen Lecture is sponsored by the UMBC Department of Economics.
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Hey Ed - so this seems completely based off companies or opportunity. In fact the more opportunity, the majority of people take jobs - corporate jobs and more. Business is simply based off the influx of customers and people starting the business. So because it's a better place to set up businesses the more people who have interest in this setup. Rural areas have no opportunity to serve people with business. Cities are set up for buildings and offices, but roads and closeness and convenience of business, doesn't set up a successful land, only simply based off most people wanting to work, and getting work, i Don't think there's anything else to it, like a big city, or even density - it's based off businesses definition and where that definition could be played to an advantage based off cities.
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very interesting!
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