Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: edward glaeser

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  • ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
    EDWARD L. GLAESER AND JAMES M. POTERBA
    Policy makers often call for increased spending on infrastructure, which can encompass a broad range of investments, from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband. Some point to the near-term macroeconomic benefits, such as job creation, associated with infrastructure spending; others point to the long-term effects of such spending o...

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  • URBAN EMPIRES
    EDWARD GLAESER
    We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world – in both developing and developed countries – display complex evolutionary patterns. Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of these radical changes in our contemporary systems from a global perspective and analyses the dominant position of modern cities in the ‘New Urban World’. Thi...

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  • AFTER THE FLOOD
    EDWARD L. GLAESER, TANO SANTOS, AND E. GLEN WEYL
    The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets—and not in politically unstable countries but in the heart of the developed world, from the Great Recession in the United States to the banking crises in Japan and the Eurozone. As we try to make sense of what caused these crises and how we might reduce risk factors and prevent ...

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  • AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS
    EDWARD L. GLAESER
    When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as transportation and communication costs fall. Paradoxically, however, cities have become increasingly important, and even within cit...

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  • THE GOVERNANCE OF NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
    EDWARD L. GLAESER
    Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy. In health care, education, culture, and religion, we trust not-for-profit firms to serve the interests of their donors, customers, employees, and society at large. We know that such firms don't try to maximize profits, but what do they maximize? This book attempts to answer that question, assembling lead...

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  • CORRUPTION AND REFORM
    EDWARD L. GLAESER
    Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In Corruption and Reform, contribut...

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