Urban economist, best-selling author and Harvard professor Edward L. Glaeser will headline the Greater Omaha Chamber’s upcoming Economic Outlook, a future-focused tradition set for Tuesday, November 15, at CenturyLink Center Omaha.
Glaeser authored the book Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. His keynote promises tochallenge commonly-held assumptions about cities and make the case for economic inclusion as a key to growing business and the region.
“The city is humanity’s greatest invention — and it’s more important than ever,” he writes.
Glaeser has taught at Harvard University since 1992 and currently serves as the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor at the Department of Economics. His economic studies of cities have shed remarkable new light on the ways cities grow and impact innovation as well as the issues that permeate urban areas such as crime, housing, segregation and inequality.
The theme of this year’s Economic Outlook is Triumph of the City:GrowingGreater Omaha and the Case for Economic Inclusion. The cost is $65 per member or $85 for nonmembers. Tables of 10 are $650 for members and $850 for nonmembers. Reservations are due by Tuesday, Nov. 8 through OmahaChamber.org/EOL.
Attendees at the Tuesday, Nov.15 event will also benefit from reporting on the most current economic trends and the results of the annual, Chamber-driven Economic Outlook Survey, exclusive insights attendees can check against internal projections and act upon.
The Economic Outlook Luncheon sponsors are Baird Holm LLP, D.A. Davidson & Co, Deloitte LLP, Lamp, Rynearson & Associates, Inc., and Mutual of Omaha Bank.