Polity Atlas
Thinker

Paul Romer

Economist who proposed charter cities; shared the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work on endogenous growth.

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Key ideas

Institution typeCharter cityA new city on largely uninhabited land, governed by a charter whose rules differ from those of the host country — a concept proposed by Paul Romer in 2009.

Revision history

  1. 2026-10-23rev 2 — Seed import
  2. 2026-10-23rev 1 — Seed import