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one of the key arguments in Abundance is that we drive up the cost of building public housing by regulating it far more stringently than we do private housing

Very Expensive Affordable Housing - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

a 100% affordable housing project in San Francisco is being opposed by PODERSF, a progressive nonprofit because it might cast a bit of shadow on a nearby schoolyard

Poland went from Iran-level of economic development to Japan-level in a single generation

Among countless other things that make me happy about it, Poland did it without an "industrial policy". Just stable policy, modest but consistent growth, the craziness of our politicians restrained by the EU, and a broad-based economy - you can't point to one sector driving it

The Deadly Cost of Ideological Medicine - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Two lessons from this post by Alex Tabarrok and underlying article from Megan McArdle: 1) If your charge is to save lives but you base your decisions on other factors, you lose any reasonable expectation of the public's trust. 2) Once ideology is accepted as a basis for public

You love to see the cost effective housing solutions with close proximity to public transit.

SURPRISE: "Americans Are Being Hit With Huge Tariff Bills on Their Online Orders" businessinsider.com/americans-huge…

Now available online: "Minimum Wages and Homelessness" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/so…. I find that American cities that increased their minimum wages in the 2010s saw notable rises in homelessness relative to cities that did not.

The anti-abundance agenda? - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Good post by Alex Tabarrok on appliance durability, and as he correctly notes the falling real prices is a bigger story than declining durability. As I have previously wrote, you can now buy about 5 times as many fridges with the same labor time as in 1984: x.com/jmhorp/status/…

It was inevitable had either party won unified control in November that they'd punt on Manchin/Barasso and try permitting reform alone this year, despite almost certainty of being axed by the parliamentarian. Now we're there. It's time for serious, bipartisan permitting reform.

Who in California opposes the abundance agenda? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

You've probably been hearing a lot about budget bills, environmental reviews, and labor fights out here on the West Coast. It's all adding up to probably the biggest policy change in modern California history. Here's a breakdown for the perplexed.

The states with the most renewables-heavy grids aren't really the liberal states, it's the places where the fundamentals for solar and (especially) onshore wind are good.

A Case for Reading Dead Economists conversableeconomist.com/2025/06/30/a-c…

Health Impacts of Federal Pandemic Aid to State and Local Governments "The researchers estimate that each additional $1,000 in federal aid per state resident led to 38 fewer deaths per 100,000 residents from all causes over the 2020–2022 period." nber.org/papers/w33699 1/n

BIG HOUSING NEWS: Our bill allowing more housing near transit stations (SB 79) just passed the Assembly Housing Committee! SB 79 will make transit-oriented development the norm in California — building the homes we need, increasing transit ridership & helping our climate goals.

It seems like Maine quietly passed one of the most dramatic statewide upzoning bills I’ve ever heard of without anyone paying much attention. backyardadus.com/adu-blog/ld1829