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Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human

Edward Glaeser

A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in them

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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

Edward Glaeser

America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they’re dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly … or are they? In this revelatory book, a leading urban economist declares…

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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation

Edward Glaeser,David Cutler

One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic…

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Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

Edward Glaeser,David Cutler

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities

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Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

Edward Glaeser,David Cutler

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities

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Fighting Poverty In The Us And Europe

Alberto Alesina,Edward Glaeser

Based on a systematic analysis of national data, the authors describe just how much US and Europe differ in their level of State engagement in the redistribution of income. They…

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Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference

Alberto Alesina,Edward Glaeser

Presenting a study of different approaches of America and Europe to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty, this book describes how different the two continents are in the level…

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Agglomeration Economics

When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas…

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Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium

Edward L. Glaeser

Drawing on his successful Lindahl lectures, Edward Glaeser provides a rigorous account of his research and unique thinking on cities. Written for an advanced audience with an interest in urban…

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The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations

Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy. We know such firms don’t try to maximize profits, but what do they maximize? Dealing with this question, this book…

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The Urban Imperative Towards Competitive Cities

The volume emphasizes the need to rethink cities and to imagine a better urban future by providing the reader with diverse perspectives on urbanization such as the changing economic landscape…

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Urban Empires: Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World

Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of the radical changes in contemporary urban systems within a broad global perspective. Featuring contributions from renowned scholars, this book serves…

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Urban Empires: Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World

Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of the radical changes in contemporary urban systems within a broad global perspective. Featuring contributions from renowned scholars, this book serves…

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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

Mancur Olson

"A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations"--Publisher's website.

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Housing and the Financial Crisis

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn’t fall. This book looks at what happened to prices and construction both during and after the housing boom in different parts of the…

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Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s Economic History

In the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of corrupt developing nations as municipal governments and robber barons alike found ways to steal from…

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Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment

Policy makers often call for increased public spending on infrastructure, which can include a broad range of investments from maintenance on and new construction of roads and bridges to spending…

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Housing Markets and the Economy - Risk, Regulation, and Policy

Edward L. Glaeser,John M. Quigley

Based on the work of Karl Chip Case, who is renowned for his scientific contributions to the economics of housing and public policy, this is a must read during a…

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After the Flood: How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought

Includes papers presented at a conference held at the Columbia Business School in the spring of 2013 in honor of Josae Scheinkman’s 65th birthday.

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Exploring General Equilibrium

Fischer Black

Fischer Black offers an incisive, unconventional assessment of general equilibrium theory and what that theory reveals about business cycles, growth, and labor economics.

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Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review,Eric Siegel,Edward L. Glaeser,Cassie Kozyrkov,Thomas H. Davenport

Is your data strategy ready for the next wave of analytics?

Data analytics offer an incredible opportunity to predict the future, engage with new technological advancements, and gain valuable insights…

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The Economic Approach

Gary S. Becker

A revealing collection from the intellectual titan whose work shaped the modern world.

As an economist and public intellectual, Gary S. Becker was a giant. The recipient of a Nobel…

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The City as an Entertainment Machine

Do amenities, entertainment and cultural centres promote growth in cities? This, and other questions surrounding gender, technology, consumers and consumption, form the subject matter of this study into the urban…

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Research Advances in Alcohol and Drug Problems

This volume is the eighth in the Research Advances Series and the fifth published by Plenum Press. Volume 8 is an omnibus rather than a theme volume in that a…

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Research Advances in Alcohol and Drug Problems

This volume is the eighth in the Research Advances Series and the fifth published by Plenum Press. Volume 8 is an omnibus rather than a theme volume in that a…

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