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In an in-depth interview, Prof. Paul Romer shares his thoughts on urbanization, driverless cars and helping the world's poor

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Excerpt from EconTalk -- "Well, we do know for sure that there's a huge excess demand for urban life. People will take huge risks, take on huge costs, to get to cities. They'll live in very difficult circumstances, often illegal, informal circumstances, crime-ridden circumstances, to get the benefits that cities offer. We know that there's a big demand there. And the challenge is how to... have a supply response that could meet that demand."

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