2: How the death of distance hurt Detroit and Glasgow and helped New York and London

Edward Glaeser interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam, 05 September 2008Edward Glaeser of Harvard University talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the lessons from his research on how falling costs of communication and transportation have been kind to idea-producing cities like New York, Boston and London and devastating to goods-producing cities like Cleveland, Detroit and Glasgow. The interview was recorded at the American Economic Association meetings in New Orleans in January 2008.