Fixing Sick Cities (with Alain Bertaud)

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We'd love to hear from you. Today is November 26, 2024, and my guest is urbanist Alain Berthaud, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Mercada Center at George Mason University and a senior research scholar at at the NYU Marin Institute of Urban Management. This is Alain's second appearance on the program. He was last here in June of 2019 to discuss his book Order Without Design, How Markets Shape Cities.

Today we're going to talk about cities generally and all things urban. Alain, welcome back to Econ Talk. Thank you. I'm very glad to be back. You call yourself an urbanist.

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