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Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, FAS
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The Economics of Place-Making Policies. Edward Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb, October 2008, Paper. "Should the national government undertake policies aimed at strengthening the economies of particular localities or regions? Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not indicate which places should be subsidized. Without a better understanding of nonlinearities in these externalities, any government spatial policy is as likely to reduce as to increase welfare. Transportation spending has historically done..."