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First published at AFR here . Missing from the debate about the human cost of COVID lockdowns is an understanding of how societies produce h...

Q+A is not real life. Nor is Twitter for that matter. In the days since my appearance I have received more than one hundred emails and mes...

This is an excerpt from a new paper of mine available here .  What is the source of rezoning gains? The answer to this question relies on un...

There is a common thread between the boom in lumber prices in the U.S. and dynamic models of housing supply.  That common element is that lo...

The NSW government is proposing to give homebuyers the option to not pay stamp duty on their housing purchase and instead opt to pay an ongo...

I have fairly unique views on zoning, housing supply and prices. Here they are. Presentation slides covering similar issues can be downloade...

Let us start by assuming that the property system is competitive and see how far that gets us in making sense of property pricing. After all...

Yes In My Back Yard (YIMBY) is the belief that more housing density in your neighbourhood is good. But I argue that almost nobody who makes ...

1/8 One year ago, the left-leaning government of Berlin introduced unprecedented rent controls. Lots of economists warned against it. So wha...

In a podcast interview with the terrific Joseph Walker, geneticist Robert Plomin said something that stuck in my mind—"in a meritocrac...