How the death of distance hurt Detroit and Glasgow and helped New York and London

Edward Glaeser interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam, 05 September 2008

Edward Glaeser of Harvard University talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the lessons from his research on how falling costs of communication and transportation have been kind to idea-producing cities like New York, Boston and London and devastating to goods-producing cities like Cleveland, Detroit and Glasgow. The interview was recorded at the American Economic Association meetings in New Orleans in January 2008.

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Topics:  Politics and economics

Tags:  'death of distance', cities, urban economics

For further information on the topic please see the paper by Glaeser and Ponzetto, 'Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?'

Edward Glaeser

Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University

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