# Prof. Lawrence White on NYC's plan to limit chain store growth

1 Faculty News March 5, 2012 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031164.jpg?itok=za5NwNtO)>

Excerpt from [The Epoch Times](http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/business-associations-criticize-plan-to-limit-chain-store-growth-200623.html) -- "'New York City has a long history of trying to encourage locally based smaller retailers and trying to discourage larger chains' retailers headquartered somewhere else,' said [Lawrence J. White](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), professor of economics at NYU, mentioning the that the city has yet to have a Walmart and only recently opened a Target."

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