Paul Romer on Urban Growth

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🗓️ 16 March 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Paul Romer of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about reforming cities to allow growth and human flourishing. Topics discussed include charter cities, the role of population density in city life, driverless cars, and various ways to help the poorest people in the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:29.4	Today is February 24th, 2015, and my guest is Paul Roamer of New York University, where
0:38.4	he is the director of the Marin Institute of Urban Management.
0:41.7	Paul, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:43.3	Yes, good to catch up again.
0:45.6	It's been a while since we talked.
0:47.3	Almost five years since you were last to guess.
0:49.4	I wanted to catch up and see where your thinking was on two issues that you're deeply involved
0:54.7	in charter cities and if we get to it, growth theory.
0:59.4	You recently made a distinction in thinking about urban development and urban growth.
1:03.4	You made a distinction between reform zones and concession zones, explain.
1:08.9	Yeah.
1:09.9	So, the background is, you can think of a charter city as a kind of a zone, but a big one.
1:17.5	Big enough to encompass an entire city.
1:22.4	One of the questions that you confront when you propose new zones is what fraction of
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