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“Mt. Laurel” Affordable Housing Obligations in Mercer County – New Jersey – 2018

On March 8, 2018, Mercer County Assignment Judge Mary C. Jacobson issued her opinion on the affordable housing obligations under New Jersey’s “Mount…

Company News·Economic Development and Sector Strategy

Smart City 2025: Building a Vision and Business Plan for the Future

"The smart city was the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people. It never answered the question: 'How…

Company News·Economic Development and Sector Strategy

The Cybersecurity Imperative: Managing Cyber Risks in a World of Rapid Digital Change

Dear friends and colleagues: We would like to keep you abreast of new developments relating to our upcoming thought leadership program, The Cybersecurity…

Present Value·Philadelphia Housing Index

Center City District and the PHI

Last week, the Center City District (CCD) released Housing Development in Perspective: 2018, which examines housing development in Greater Center City—an area…

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A Conversation on Design Thinking

Last month, we convened our Senior Advisors to a roundtable on design thinking. Facilitated by ESI Senior Vice President Lee Huang, we…

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Step by Step: Machine Learning

This is the latest installment in our Step By Step series, where analysts and research assistants showcase how we use cutting edge…

Company News

ESI ThoughtLab Takes Thought Leadership to the Next Level

February 8, 2018 — (Philadelphia, PA) Roubini ThoughtLab, a specialist in evidence-based thought leadership, and Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI), a leading economic consultancy, today announced the…

Company News

The Cybersecurity Imperative: Managing Cyber Risks in a World of Rapid Digital Change

Econsult Solutions and our ESI ThoughtLab team would like to keep you abreast of new developments relating to our upcoming thought leadership program, The…

Company News

ESI and Drexel Team Up for their 4th Annual Urban Economic Policy Conference

ESI is proud to sponsor the Drexel University School of Economics's 4th Annual Urban Economic Policy Conference: Topics in Education on April 13, 2018, from 12:00…

Present Value·Infrastructure Economics

Funding Public Water: The Protection/Commodity Conundrum

We take the instantaneous availability of safe water for granted. Which is not surprising, since we are 164 years removed from the…

Present Value·Philadelphia Housing Index

The PHI, New Visualizations and a Look at Seasonality Across Neighborhoods

As 2018 comes into full swing, we've started to look at some new ways to visualize the Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI). To…

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Urban China

Recently, I traveled to Guangzhou, China for several weeks, and visited the Pearl Delta. ESI President, Dr. Richard Voith was with me…

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