Episode · EconTalk · 2024-10-21
Books mentioned on Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan)
Housing is artificially expensive. Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and the author of Build, Baby, Build talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the causes behind high housing prices and what can be done to bring prices down.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is a sweeping masterpiece depicting the brutality and human ramifications of the Eastern Front, the Holocaust, and totalitarianism during World War II.
Book club“Tyler C and I are reading life and Fate by Vil Grossman and we will be releasing a conversation about the book in late November so if you'd like to read in advance along with us feel free to do so you can find links to the paperback and the Kindle edition on the website for this episode”
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Neighborhood Defenders
Neighborhood Defenders by Katherine Levine Einstein, David M.
Discussed“I don't remember you might have actually interviewed them the neighborhood Defenders did you interview the authors of that book I don't remember who wrote it uh so it's three authors one of them last name Einstein so that one's memorable but anyway uh this is a book where they actually got transcripts from pretty much all the land meetings”
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Land Use without Zoning
Discussed“here's this famous book called land use without zoning by Bernard Sean where he made the point of yes so Houston really barely has any regulation of that sort that”
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