And fundamentally, Survival is also an optimistic book, but it can’t be denied that the reappearance of pandemic has been something of a body blow for urban life. Has your optimism about cities dwindled over the last 13 years, as much as the change in titles would suggest?Įd GLAESER: Probably not. Steve LEVITT: So back in 2008, Ed, you wrote a book called Triumph of the City and now 13 years later you’ve got a new book called Survival of the City. I think this is going to be a real treat. And so smart, whether it’s over lunch in the faculty club or walking through favelas in Rio de Janeiro, which I once did with Ed many years ago, he always teaches me things. Ed Glaeser does not talk like an economist. We love to talk in great detail about the technical aspects of our research projects, but more often than not, we have a hard time explaining what people should actually care about the work we’ve done. LEVITT: Have you ever noticed how all economists kind of sound the same when they talk? We’re not especially articulate and we tend to speak using the stilted language of academic writing. Welcome to People I (Mostly) Admire, with Steve Levitt.
And now he’s back with a new book, co-authored with economist David Cutler, called Survival of the City. He’s the author of the best-selling book Triumph of the City. Steve LEVITT: My guest today, Ed Glaeser, is a Harvard professor and the world’s foremost economist of cities.
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