Edward Glaeser Quotes

• Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

  Edward Glaeser

  Cities, World, Static

  Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• La fuerza que surge de la colaboración humana es la verdad central del éxito de la civilización y la razón primordial de la existencia de las ciudades. Debemos liberarnos de nuestra tendencia a ver las ciudades como sus edificios, y recordar que la verdadera ciudad está hecha de carne, no de hormigón.

  Edward Glaeser

  Real, Cities, Collaboration

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• Es difícil no empatizar con la ira del alcalde, dadas las injusticias que ha sufrido, pero la ira justificada rara vez conduce a una política sensata.

  Edward Glaeser

  Wise, Anger, Injustice

  Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

  Edward Glaeser

  Hatred, Definitions, Pay

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• Knowledge is more important than space.

  Edward Glaeser

  Space, Important

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• There's a reason Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix are our four fastest-growing areas. They offer an astonishingly high standard of living for ordinary Americans. New York City is a great place to be really rich and not a terrible place to be really poor, but it's a pretty hard place to live on $60,000 a year. You don't experience anywhere near the basic standard of living you would in Houston on the same income.

  Edward Glaeser

  Rich, Reason, Poor

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• Un estudio clásico comparaba los efectos de las leyes de derecho al trabajo en los puestos de trabajo de las fábricas de condados vecinos, a ambos lados de la frontera del derecho al trabajo. Se constató que el sector manufacturero creció un 23,1% más rápido entre 1947 y 1992 en el lado antisindical de la línea divisoria.

  Edward Glaeser

  Jobs, Law, Borders

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• One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but to strengthen the cities in China and India and elsewhere that are gateways between those countries and the West. It's deeply wise for the Chinese to be pro-urban in terms of development. They're creating space for ideas and human capital to be developed.

  Edward Glaeser

  Wise, Country, Empowering

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