I came across this video interview of economist Sandy Ikeda by the Mackinac Center. Sandy currently blogs at thinkmarkets and has contributed guest posts to Market Urbanism. I thought Sandy did a great job discussing many of the topics we cover in this site. Sandy is particularly insightful when it comes to the [...]
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December 13th, 2009 | Tags: Author: Sandy Ikeda, automobile, highways, Intervention, planning, smart growth | Category: Economics, planning, video, zoning | 24 comments |
 printable viewby Stephen Smith I was heartened to see an article about the need for mass transit in the pages of The Nation, though I was severely disappointed by the magazine’s own hypocrisy and historical blindness. The article is in all ways a standard left-liberal screed against the car and for mass transit, which [...] February 6th, 2009 | Tags: automobile, density, planning, progressivism, roads, San Francisco, smart growth, Stephen Smith, transit, Transportation, zoning | Category: history, planning, sprawl, Transportation | 11 comments |
printable viewNo doubt, mass production of the automobile is one of the greatest innovations of all times. It has allowed for increased mobility of goods and people, which has greatly improved productivity and leisure. But, is subsidizing mobility at the expense of taxpayers taking things too far? In various blogs and forums, I frequently [...] July 30th, 2008 | Tags: automobile, construction, DeLucchi, fuel, gas, infrastructure, mobility, roads, socialism, tax, tolls | Category: Economics, featured, infrastructure, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends | 18 comments |
printable viewOne of my favorite new blogs, Rationalitate brought up a topic that I have spent much time thinking about, The Great Depression and Public Roads: In a time before the widespread adoption of income and sales taxes, property taxes made up the lion’s share of local government revenues: two-thirds of all revenue according [...] May 18th, 2008 | Tags: automobile, Eisenhower, great depression, highways, history, infrastructure, Interstate Highway System, new deal, Oil, Roosevelt | Category: Transportation | Leave a comment |
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