Platform Competition and the Urban Economics of Free Speech
Environmental and Urban Economics
JANUARY 24, 2021
The New York Times has published an important piece on free speech on American University campuses. I'd like to share some thoughts from the perspective of urban economics. Back in 1986, I was living in London because I was a Visiting Student at the London School of Economics. On some weekends, I would go to Hyde Park or Regents Park and there would be a small crowd listening to a charismatic speaker standing on a box and he would be talking about Karl Marx or Ms.
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