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Maybe the delay in posts led you to believe the Rothbard Series was complete. The good news is that there are a few more posts to go, and the ones coming up next should be the most interesting to urbanists. If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For A New Liberty [...] October 19th, 2009 | Tags: emergence, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Murray Rothbard, Private Roads, private streets, privatization, railways, standardization, Transportation | Category: Rothbard The Urbanist, Transportation, infrastructure, privatization | Comments |
 printable viewThis 5th installment of the Rothbard Series dovetails well with the most recent post on segregation by guest blogger, Stephen Smith, as well as a post back in July over at Austin Contrarian. If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For A New Liberty can be downloaded free from Mises.org as [...] August 25th, 2009 | Tags: discrimination, diversity, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Jane Jacobs, Murray Rothbard, segregation, street cars | Category: Jane Jacobs, Rothbard The Urbanist, housing, privatization | Comments |
printable viewI threw up Friday’s Redistribution post somewhat hastily during my break, but there isn’t much more that I haven’t said before. As a follow-up, I’d like to tie it in with some other interesting reads. Ryan Avent at The Bellows agreed with Yglesias’ post and added: Anyway, I saw in Google reader that libertarian intellectual Will Wilkinson [...] January 26th, 2009 | Tags: affordable housing, CATO, Ed Glaeser, Free-market, glaeser, highways, libertarian, progressivism, sprawl, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors | Comments |
printable view43 John Galt Way 27 Mises Street I recently googled upon a post at a blog called “Rub-a-Dub” that mentioned a land development project in Mount Pleasant, SC called I’On. I imagine the developers of the I’On “Traditional Neighborhood Development” (TND) community are sympathetic with Market Urbanism, as they named streets after John Galt (of Ayn [...] January 21st, 2009 | Tags: development, Free-market, I'On, Jane Jacobs, Ludwig Von Mises, Mount Pleasant, New Urbanism, NIMBY, smart growth, Sout Carolina, TND, walkability, zoning | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, housing, zoning | Comments |
printable viewBy 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. Needless to [...] October 20th, 2008 | Tags: Fannie Mae, Fed, Freddie Mac, Free-market, government intervention, Hayek, housing bubble, Rothbard | Category: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Economics, housing | Comments |
printable viewRussell Roberts of George Mason University, CafeHayek, and Econtalk wrote of series of Cafe Hayek posts on the various federal interventions in the housing market: Housing markets without the benefit of hindsight Fannie reaches its goals–sort of Zero Down! Fannie and Freddie’s other mission Section 8 Bill cared too Affordable equals “subprime” Calm down And don’t forget Andrew Cuomo Shiller and fundamentals The role of [...] September 23rd, 2008 | Tags: CafeHayek, Economics, Fannie Mae, Fed, Freddie Mac, Free-market, government, government intervention, housing bubble, Intervention, Russell Roberts, subprime | Category: Economics, housing | Comments |
printable viewThat is, he argues that private property should be subject to government planning restrictions if a developer building densely on its property creates a traffic burden on government roads. Wooten points out that any solution to Atlanta’s traffic congestion has to focus on roads, not transit or land use. In a more interesting twist, he takes [...] July 18th, 2008 | Tags: congestion, density, Free-market, reason, Sam Staley, transit | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, zoning | Comments |
printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) We’ve all heard it said by some NIMBY [...] July 7th, 2008 | Tags: developer, development, Economics, Free-market, greed, Henry Hazlitt, neighorhood, NIMBY, Urban[ism] Legends | Category: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | Comments |
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