Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp professor of economics and the chairman of the department of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught microeconomic theory, and occasionally urban and public economics, since 1992. 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. His books include ‘Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium’ (Oxford University Press, 2008), ‘Rethinking Federal Housing Policy’ (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008), ‘Triumph of the City’ (Penguin Press, 2011), and ‘Survival of the City: Mass Flourishing in an Age of Social Isolation’ (Penguin Press, forthcoming in Fall 2021).