- Long Now Manual for Civilization, Urban economics, Urbanisation, Cities and towns
**A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future.**
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Earnest, contemporary, classical in form and plot-driven.
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- Author
- Edward L. Glaeser
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 404
- Publisher
- Macmillan, The Penguin Press, Tantor Audio
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330458078
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Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He studies the economics of cities, housing, segregation, obesity, crime, innovation and other subjects, and writes about many of these issues for Economix. He serves as the director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992. (*Source: Penguin USA*)
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