Private cities

[MrBogosity]

As Detroit desperately tries to hold on to the very socialist city government that destroyed it, Russ Roberts (of Keynes/Hayek rap duo fame) does a podcast about private cities:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/01/alex_tabarrok_o.html

Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent paper Tabarrok co-authored with Shruti Rajagopalan on Gurgaon, a city in India that until recently had little or no municipal government. The two discuss the successes and failures of this private city, the tendency to romanticize the outcomes of market and government action, and the potential for private cities to meet growing demand for urban living in India and China.

Follow-up: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/01/continuing_educ.html