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Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

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Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation"
English | ISBN: 1952223415 | 2024 | 300 pages | PDF | 52 MB

In this exciting new graphic novel, economist Bryan Caplan examines how changes to housing regulation can lead us to a vastly better world.
Why are housing prices in America so unbelievably high, especially in the country's most desirable locations? The superficial answer is “supply and demand,” but the deep answer―the reason supply is so low―is a regulatory system that treats developers like criminals.
In Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation, economist Bryan Caplan makes the economic and philosophical case for radical deregulation of this massive market―freeing property owners to build as tall and dense as they wish. Not only would the average price of housing be cut in half, but the building boom unleashed by deregulation would simultaneously reduce inequality, increase social mobility, promote economic growth, reduce homelessness, increase birth rates, help the environment, cut crime, and more.
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