📚 1 Books mentioned in "566. Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America? | Freakonomics Radio" of Freakonomics Radio
Podcast: Freakonomics Radio
Episode: 566. Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America? | Freakonomics Radio
Published on November 24, 2023
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The Rise and Decline of Nations
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And so this sort of massive harming of the young, and in some sense this is a larger phenomenon that's related to the things Mancur Olson wrote about 40 years ago in 'The Rise and Decline of Nations' in which, in a stable society, insiders basically figure out how to rig the game for themselves.
Ed Glazer discusses the book 'The Rise and Decline of Nations' by Mancur Olson, highlighting its relevance to the issue of how insiders manipulate systems to their advantage, particularly in the context of the housing shortage.