Jason M. Barr

Jason M. Barr is a professor of economics at Rutgers University-Newark and an affiliated member of the Rutgers Global Urban Systems (GUS) Ph.D. program. His research areas are urban economics and real estate economics. Dr. Barr received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University (1992), an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College (1995), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University (2002). He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, and Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. Dr. Barr is the author of Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan’s Skyscrapers (OUP 2016) and Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers (Scribner 2014). His research has been featured in The Washington Post, The Economist, Curbed.com, and Architectural Record. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, StarTrek.com, Dezeen.com, Scientific American, and the Irish Independent. He currently writes the Skynomics Blog, a blog about skyscrapers, cities, and economics.