Curriculum Vitae

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught microeconomic theory, and occasionally urban and public economics, since 1992. He has served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He has published dozens of papers on cities economic growth, law, and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1992. His books include Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium (Oxford University Press, 2008), Rethinking Federal Housing Policy (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008), Triumph of the City (Penguin Press, 2011), and Survival of the City: Mass Flourishing in an Age of Social Isolation (Penguin Press, 2021). 

Campus Office:

Economics Department:
Littauer Center 315A (Office hours location)

Tel: 617-495-0575
Fax: 617-495-7730
Email: eglaeser@harvard.edu

Office Hours: By appointment only.
Please email the professor directly with copy to Jamie Murray.

Staff Support:
Jamie Murray
Littauer Center - North Yard

Tel: 617-496-6255
Email: jamiemurray@fas.harvard.edu

Mailing Address:
Economics Department
Littauer Center 315A
1805 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138