Twenty-Third Luca d’Agliano Lecture in Development Economics: “Cities and the Housing Crisis” by Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University), 29th May 2025 at 10:30 a.m. (CEST), CCA

TWENTY-THIRD LUCA D’AGLIANO LECTURE IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

“Cities and the Housing Crisis”, by Edward L. Glaeser (Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University)

The Twenty-Third Luca d’Agliano Lecture in Development Economics by Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University) will take place on Thursday, 29th May 2025 at 10:30 a.m. (CEST) at the Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin).

Programme

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.

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.

This year the Luca d’Agliano Lecture is organised within the framework of the Festival Internazionale dell’Economia

In collaboration with Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto