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Published · transcript-backedEdward Glaeser: belief
8 Sept 2021 Conversations with Tyler David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities
“I think that the story in Honduras shows that, that it’s very, very hard for a country to say, “Oh, we’re going to have this different jurisdiction run the city, and it’s going to be much more successful than the rest of the country, and we’re going to think that that’s okay.”
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- Edward Glaeser
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- 8 Sept 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you hold out any hope for charter cities like Próspera in Honduras? Can that work, or is it futile? I think it’s very hard for governments to keep their hands off the golden egg. The beauty of Hong Kong was it had the British Navy protecting it for most of its history, so there was no way that China or anyone else was going to grab it. But it’s very, very hard. I think that the story in Honduras shows that, that it’s very, very hard for a country to say, “Oh, we’re going to have this different jurisdiction run the city, and it’s going to be much more successful than the rest of the country, and we’re going to think that that’s okay. ” It’s just very hard to see how the populist political dynamics don’t cause it to become unraveled. It worked for UAE. Dubai is massively successful. UAE allows it to continue. That’s all quite —…
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