Luca d’Agliano Lecture: Edward Glaeser “Cities and the Housing Crisis”
29 May 2025 @ 10:30 - 11:30
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23rd LUCA D’AGLIANO LECTURE
CITIES AND THE HOUSING CRISIS
Organized by Collegio Carlo Alberto and Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano within the framework of the Festival Internazionale dell’Economia
Program
10:30 | Welcoming Address by Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Professor of Economics, University of Milan; President, Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto; Scientific Director, Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano
Introduction to the lecture by Thierry Verdier, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics; Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano
10:40 | Lecture by Edward L. Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University
11:25 | Debate
Collegio Carlo Alberto – Common Room
Languages: English with simultaneous Italian translation
Live streaming on carloalberto.org and festivalinternazionaledelleconomia.com
Abstract
Urbanization continues to provide enormous economic opportunity throughout the world, but too many people remain isolated in cities and lose the benefits of interaction.
Poor children in the wealthy world live relatively segregated lives that are cut off from the benefits of the city; female entrepreneurs in the poor world face barriers limiting economic cooperation. High housing costs make it hard for outsiders to find opportunity in the city.
The ability to build housing and infrastructure is crucial to ensure that our cities remain open to outsiders and change more generally.
Edward L. Glaeser’s Bio
Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught economic theory and urban economics since 1992. He also leads the Urban Economics Working Group at the National Bureau of Economics Research, co-leads the Cities Programme of the International Growth Centre, and co-edits the Journal of Urban Economics. He has written hundreds of papers on cities, infrastructure and other topics, and written, co-written and co-edited many books including “Triumph of the City, Survival of the City” (with David Cutler) and “Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference” (with Alberto Alesina).
He has served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Chair of Harvard’s Economics Department.
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Econometric Society, and he received the Albert O. Hirschman prize from the Social Science Research Council. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1992.
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