Ed Glaeser: Harvard's housing huckster

His absurd housing analysis makes you wonder if he knows anything about housing markets at all

Academia is often a social status game more than a knowledge production game.

Everybody knows this. But few say it.

Everybody knows that there are clueless experts. But few say it.

So today, I’m going to say it.

If what Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser writes about housing markets reflects his understanding of them, he is a clueless expert.¹

This is a guy w…