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
Books by the Guest
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
Guest’s Blog
Guest’s Twitter
Related Episode
Ep. 363 It’s Happening: Seasteading — Liberty Through Floating Cities (Joe Quirk)
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