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By Sandy Ikeda Last week I spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of students and faculty about the current economic and financial turmoil. I shared the podium with three of my colleagues, who range all the way from far to the left of Barack Obama to very, very far to the left of Barack Obama. [...] October 20th, 2008 | Tags: Fannie Mae, Fed, Freddie Mac, Free-market, government intervention, Hayek, housing bubble, Rothbard | Category: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Economics, housing | 9 comments |  printable viewWhen the New York Sun decided to shut down its press, the biggest loss to the blogosphere was Sanford Ikeda’s Culture of Congestion blog. At the Sun, Sandy blogged about cities, economics, politics, and related subjects. Sandford Ikeda is an Associate Professor of Economics at SUNY Purchase. Professor Ikeda is the author of Dynamics [...] October 20th, 2008 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, nyc | Category: Author: Sandy Ikeda | Leave a comment | printable viewIn Market Urbanism’s four part series on rent control, I avoided the topic of the morality of rent control, as I intended to address the economic issues and leave the morality to others. Thankfully, J. Brian Phillips of the Ad Hoc Committee for Property Rights is an expert on the subject. In his blog, [...] October 16th, 2008 | Tags: J. Brian Phillips, morality, property rights, rent control | Category: rent control | 3 comments | printable viewThanks to Bill Nelson for tipping me off to the article from The Villager (NYC): Retail rent control? A city councilmember planned to introduce a bill this week that will require small businesses and landlords to submit to arbitration in negotiating lease renewals if both parties can’t agree on a fair rent. The far-reaching [...] October 15th, 2008 | Tags: nyc, rent control, retail, Robert Jackson, small business, Steve Null | Category: rent control | 25 comments | printable viewWow! This market is a mess. As a great follow up to his posts at CafeHayek on government’s intervention in the housing market, Russell Roberts discusses the situation and bailout with reason.tv: Also… Here’s the video from an Economics forum discussion at MIT (my Alma mater) on Wednesday: The US Financial Crisis What [...] October 10th, 2008 | Tags: Bailout, CafeHayek, Economics, government intervention, housing bubble, MIT, Russell Roberts, Urban Economics, USC | Category: Economics, housing, video | Leave a comment | printable viewCook Co. sheriff won’t evict in foreclosures from Associated Press Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he’s ordered his deputies to stop taking part in evictions of properties that have been foreclosed upon. Dart says the change goes into effect Thursday. He says the decision comes because many of those being evicted are people [...] October 8th, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, eviction, foreclosures | Category: housing | Leave a comment | printable viewEd Glaeser gives three compelling reasons why the government should end their infatuation with high housing prices. (Nonetheless, some of the same politicians speak through the other side of their mouths about promoting housing affordability): Why We Should Let Housing Prices Keep Falling There is a superficial attractiveness to policies that seem to promise [...] October 8th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, affordable housing, Ed Glaeser, government, housing, property, regulation | Category: Economics, housing | Leave a comment | printable viewThe New York Sun has decided to close up shop. To Market Urbanists, the greatest casualties are Sandy Ikeda’s blog, Culture of Congestion and Ed Glaeser’s articles. Sandy’s work has inspired me to read Jane Jacobs’ books (starting with The Death and Life of Great American Cities), and I plan to post some of [...] October 5th, 2008 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, culture of congestion, Ed Glaeser, ny sun, nyc | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs | Leave a comment | printable view |
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