Edward Glaeser famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
-- Edward Glaeser

#Wise #Anger #Injustice
The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.
-- Edward Glaeser

#Real #Cities #Collaboration
Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.
-- Edward Glaeser

#Cities #World #Static
Knowledge is more important than space.
-- Edward Glaeser

#Space #Important
An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.
-- Edward Glaeser

#Hatred #Definitions #Pay
There's a reason Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix are our four fastest-growing areas. They offer an astonishingly high standard of living for ordinary Americans. New York City is a great place to be really rich and not a terrible place to be really poor, but it's a pretty hard place to live on $60,000 a year. You don't experience anywhere near the basic standard of living you would in Houston on the same income.
-- Edward Glaeser

#Rich #Reason #Poor
One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but to strengthen the cities in China and India and elsewhere that are gateways between those countries and the West. It's deeply wise for the Chinese to be pro-urban in terms of development. They're creating space for ideas and human capital to be developed.
-- Edward Glaeser

#Wise #Country #Empowering
One classic paper compared the effects of right-to-work laws on factory jobs in neighboring counties, on either side of a right-to-work border. It found that manufacturing grew 23.1% faster between 1947 and 1992 on the anti-union side of the divide.
-- Edward Glaeser

#Jobs #Law #Borders

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

Edward Glaeser famous quotes

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