S1E4 - Ganesh Sitaraman, Morgan Ricks & Chris Serkin: Regulation & The Geography of Inequality

Professors Ganesh Sitaraman, Morgan Ricks, and Chris Serkin are Professors of Law at Vanderbilt Law School.

Professor Michelle Layser, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, joins as guest co-host for this discussion.

Appendices:

Ganesh Sitaraman: Jump Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream by Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson.

Chris Serkin: Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis by Katherine Levine Einstein, David Glick, and Maxwell Palmer.

Michelle Layser: How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality by Michelle Layser.

Greg Shill: Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Divide by Jonathan Rodden.

Jeff Lin: Local Ties in Spatial Equilibrium by Mike Zabek.

Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill. Ganesh is @GaneshSitaraman, Morgan is @MorganRicks1, and Chris avoids twitter but can occasionally be found @serkinc. Michelle is @LayserTax.

Producer: Schuyler Pals.

The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.