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Triumph of the City: How Our Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. Edward Glaeser, February 10, 2011,…
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap:…
American fiscal policy has been procyclical: Washington wasted the expansion period 2001-2007 by running budget deficits, but by 2011 had…
ON A pleasant spring day 167 years ago, two young men enjoyed some fishing near Concord and cooked up some chowder in a nearby pine stump.…
Perhaps the most striking finding in the United Nations' recent 20th anniversary Human Development Report is the outstanding performance of…
Current approaches to government funding of social services create significant barriers to innovation. Funding streams tend to emphasize…
What Egypt needs now, before anything else, is free parliamentary elections that can help capitalize on the momentum in Tahrir Square and…
How Skyscrapers Can Save the City. Edward Glaeser, February 9, 2011, Paper. "Besides making cities more affordable and architecturally…
Historically, many countries have suffered a pattern of procyclical fiscal policy: spending too much in booms and then forced to cut back…
We describe the pension plan features of the states and the largest cities and counties in the U.S. Unlike
in the private sector, defined…