Edward Glaeser offers a better alternative to Kamala Harris’ ideas for improving Americans’ housing options. Vice President Kamala Harris correctly identified one of America’s biggest problems when she said that…
This week, JLF’s Joe Coletti wrote a research brief on a recent Ed Glaeser interview that sheds light on how America’s programs to mitigate risk for the middle class have…
What is the common element that connects Medicare, occupational licensing, free college, and affordable housing? According to Ed Glaeser in a recent interview, they illustrate how past efforts to improve…
America has always been a country on the move. Across the ocean, across the continent, and, for decades after the frontier officially closed, Americans have moved away from (and often…
Edward Glaeser writes at National Review Online about changing government policy to avoid discouraging work. The rise of joblessness — especially among men — is the great American domestic crisis…
Ilya Somin has posted an interesting disucssion on the Washington Post website about the many ways in which zoning hurts the poor. He quotes from, and links to, a Mercatus Center report in which:…
Peter Coy‘s Bloomberg Businessweek article about this week’s scheduled referendum on Scottish independence features some interesting observations. First, one need not have a written constitution based on the concept of…
Joel Kotkin examines for Forbes readers some interesting data about income inequality in the United States. Scholars of the geography of American inequality have different theses but on certain issues…
Edward Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard University and Bloomberg View columnist, America to educate itself to prosperity! For Glaeser, it all starts with politicians in Washington, That message should…
Regular readers of John Locke Foundation reports know that Randal O’Toole has demonstrated why high-speed rail makes no sense for North Carolina. Perhaps those who read Newsweek will come to…
Remember I almost saw the need desire for a Raleigh-Wilmington rail line, but I had no use for a Salisbury to Asheville, mainly because I don’t think anyone else would…
George, That’s just one more reason why Ed Glaeser is one of my favorite living economists not at George Mason — with Amy Finkelstein, Greg Mankiw, and others I haven’t…