EPISODE 2558

Ep. 371 Private Cities?

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Alex Tabarrok discusses the case of India’s private city, and the challenges — and promise — of a private model of urbanization.

About the Guest

Alex Tabarrok holds the Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

Paper Discussed

“Lessons from Gurgaon, India’s Private City” by Shruti Rajagopalan and Alexander Tabarrok

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Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal
Science
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with
David Beito and Peter Gordon)
Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime

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Marginal Revolution

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