Alex Tabarrok on Private Cities

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🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent paper Tabarrok co-authored with Shruti Rajagopalan on Gurgaon, a city in India that until recently had little or no municipal government. The two discuss the successes and failures of this private city, the tendency to romanticize the outcomes of market and government action, and the potential for private cities to meet growing demand for urban living in India and China.

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1:12.7	Now we're going to draw on a recent paper you've written with Shruti Rajika Polon called
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