Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will visit Cornell on May 4 to deliver the Frank Knight Lecture in the Department of Economics.
Glaeser’s talk, "Let's talk about cities, housing and infrastructure,” will take place from 4:30-6 p.m. in Malott Hall, Room 228.
"Glaeser’s scholarship has had an extraordinary influence on the study of cities and economic development, and we are excited to have him share his insights with our community,” said Eleonora Patacchini, the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Glaeser has taught economic theory and urban economics at Harvard 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).
Glaeser 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.
The Frank Knight Lecture is an annual scholarly event named in honor of one of Cornell's most esteemed doctoral students in economics. Knight Ph.D. ‘1916 was a pioneer in the study of uncertainty and entrepreneurship and spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, where he became a co-founder of the Chicago school (with Jacob Viner). Nobel Laureates Milton Friedman, George Stigler and James M. Buchanan were all students of Knight at Chicago.
