Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L.
Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He
regularly teaches microeconomics theory, and occasionally urban and public
economics. He has served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local
Government, and Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He has
published dozens of papers on cities economic growth, law, and economics. In
particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the
role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He received his PhD from the
University of Chicago in 1992.
Edward L. Glaeser