For regulators to succeed, they need enough information to restrain excessive risk-taking and that requires a system where financial firms reveal each other’s...
The success of a city is tied to the area’s entrepreneurship, but what explains why some places are more entrepreneurial than others? The answer should matter for two...
Edward L. Glaeser is an economics professor at Harvard.One reason to fret about federal anti-recessionary fixes is that they often last long after the crisis that...
Despite the fiscal difficulties trains face in places like urban Boston, the Obama administration is pushing a new transportation agenda that promises high-speed rail in...
Over the last five years, Mumbai has been blessed with two significant depictions. In 2004, Suketu Mehta wrote “Maximum City,” which was a finalist for the...
In the 1990s, American economists roamed the world preaching the virtues of fiscal restraint, the rule of law, free trade, and privatization. Today, those four policy...
The cities on sand—Phoenix and Las Vegas—continued to have some of the biggest price declines. Phoenix prices dropped by 5.5 percent between December and January;...
Edward L. Glaeser is an economist at Harvard.Should billions of taxpayer dollars be used to bail out the automobile industry? Hard-line economists argue that Detroit...