Interview - Paul Romer on Charter Cities
Paul Romer is Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business and Director of its Urbanization Project. The Project's first initiative helps existing cities plan for expansion. Its second initiative fosters the creation of entirely new cities because history shows that a new city offers a uniquely important opportunity to implement systemic social reform and speed up progress.
Prior to joining Stern, Romer taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Romer is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2002, he received the Recktenwald Prize for his work on the role of ideas in sustaining economic growth.
