The Entrenched vs. the Newcomers: 2019 James Q. Wilson Lecture
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Edward L. Glaeser discusses how the proliferation of unfair laws and regulations is walling off opportunity in America's greatest cities at the Manhattan Institute’s 2019 James Q. Wilson Lecture.
We like to think of American cities as incubators of opportunity, and this has often been true—but today's successful city-dwellers are making it harder for others to follow their example. In this year's Wilson Lecture, Glaeser addresses the conflict between entrenched interests and newcomers in its economic, political, geographic, and generational dimensions.
Video can be found at the Manhattan Institute website.
Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University (where he has taught since 1992), a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of Triumph of the City.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. |
| 0:05.4 | Coming up on today's show, listeners will hear Harvard Professor Manhattan Institute's Senior Fellow |
| 0:10.8 | and City Journal contributing editor, Edward Glazer, deliver the Manhattan Institute's annual |
| 0:16.4 | James Q. Wilson Lecture. We featured the Wilson lecture on the podcast last year. Jim Wilson, |
| 0:23.4 | to remind listeners, was an eminent social scientist who taught at Harvard, UCLA, and many other |
| 0:29.9 | universities, and from 1997 through 2011, he delivered an annual lecture at MI on a variety of topics, the criminal justice system, |
| 0:40.3 | the roots of terrorism, the role of the media in shaping public opinion, the nature of |
| 0:45.3 | democracy, and other themes. Ed Glazer has delivered the annual Wilson lecture in his |
| 0:51.3 | honor since 2015. This year's talk was entitled The Entrenched versus the Newcomers, |
| 0:58.1 | and it looks at how the proliferation of unfair laws and regulations is walling off opportunity in America's |
| 1:05.0 | greatest cities. If you want to watch a video of the lecture, we'll link to it in the description. |
| 1:09.9 | We'll get started with that |
| 1:10.9 | momentarily. The first voice you'll hear is the Manhattan Institute's new president, |
| 1:15.2 | Ryhan Salam, who introduced Ed at the event. The episode, audio, is about 35 minutes. We hope |
| 1:21.7 | you enjoy it. Good evening and welcome to the 2019 James Q. Wilson lecture. Every year for 15 years, |
| 1:42.1 | James Q. Wilson delivered an enormously influential lecture for the Manhattan Institute. |
| 1:47.2 | He was a public intellectual without peer. And today, who better to honor his legacy than Edward Glazer? |
| 1:54.8 | Ed is the godfather of urban economics. He has transformed the study of the market dynamics of the world's great cities from an intellectual |
| 2:02.2 | backwater to one of the most vibrant fields in the social sciences, all the while inspiring |
| 2:08.0 | a growing number of protégés and practitioners around the country and the world. |
| 2:15.0 | Everything you see around you today in the glittering, towering, often maddening cities we call home, |
| 2:20.7 | has at some point or another been quantified and chronicled across his more than 600 written articles |
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