Cents and the City – A Dead Economists Salon on Urban NIMBYism, Progressivism (and, yes, Promiscuity)

In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss city-dwelling

“As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.”
~ Albert Camus.

In this salon, we will discuss the opportunity – and the opportunity costs – of living and working in cities, both in the past, and in the post-covid future.

We’ll cover:

• The benefits of living in a city (“agglomeration economies”)
• The costs of living in a city
• Covid, remote work, reverse migration, and the “Matthew Effect”
• The future of cities and city states
• Nimbyism vs yimbyism – growth, degrowth, and Ha-Ha communities
• Cities as labour and marriage markets

And whatever else comes up in conversation.

Recommended Reading

Cities in the wake of Covid

A market urbanist manifesto

The prophecies of Jane Jacobs

Cities, climate change, and adaptation

Johann von Thünen, pioneer of spatial economics

Noah Smith on left-wing NIMBYism

Alain Bertaud, on cities, markets and people

Alex Tabarrok on private cities

Kevin Murphy on Sherwin Rosen’s location choice model (advanced)

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