Edward Glaeser is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of City Journal, a contributor to the New York Times' Economix blog, and the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He is Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Director of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston.

Glaeser teaches urban and social economics and microeconomic theory. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and 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. Glaeser also edits the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is currently writing a book about the rise, decline, and rebirth of American cities, which is scheduled to be published in 2009.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992.

Articles/Op-eds

• The Way We Gentrify Now New York Sun, 08-27-08
• The mill towns round our neck Prospect, September 2008
• Houston, New York Has a Problem New York Sun, 07-16-08
• The Life Of the City New York Sun, 05-14-08
• Invest in human capital, not in building projects Buffalo News, 04-18-08
• The Age of Abundance New York Sun, 03-26-08
• Make Mine McCain New York Sun, 01-28-08
• Why I Write New York Sun, 10-26-07
• Can Buffalo Ever Come Back? New York Sun, 10-19-07
• The World According to Paul Krugman New York Sun, 10-10-07
• The Wealth Of One Nation New York Sun, 09-19-07 (book review)
• Vilifying Lenders New York Sun, 09-18-07
• How To Recover New York Sun, 09-04-07
• Latest Sign Of City's Comeback New York Sun, 08-21-07
• Where Edwards is Right New York Sun, 08-07-07
• Better a Murdoch... New York Sun, 07-24-07
• Risk Worth Taking New York Sun, 07-10-07
• Come One, Come All New York Sun, 06-26-07
• The End of the New Deal New York Sun, 06-13-07
• Upward Trajectory New York Sun, 06-12-07
• Fight for Housing New York Sun, 05-09-07
• In the City, Inequality Rules New York Sun, 03-02-07
• The Modernism That Failed? New York Sun, 02-28-07
• The Greenness of Cities New York Sun, 01-30-07
• Teddy Kollek, City Builder New York Sun, 01-04-07
• A Breathtaking Vision For the Future of the City New York Sun, 12-13-06
• Bonfire of the Landmarks New York Sun, 11-29-06
• Friedman's Work In New York New York Sun, 11-20-06
• My Father, the Architect New York Sun, 10-31-06
• Endless Apartments New York Sun, 10-24-06
• Improving Brooklyn? New York Sun, 9-8-06
• City, Thank Your Immigrants New York Sun, 9-5-06
• Endless Land Debacle New York Sun, 8-16-06
• Schools For Cities New York Sun, 8-15-06

City Journal articles

• New York Needs Innovation, 27 October 2008
• Houston, New York Has a Problem, Summer 2008
• Can Buffalo Ever Come Back?, Autumn 2007
• Why Economists Still Like Cities, Spring 1996