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cgod  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reforming land use regulations

I lose faith in essays when they say something completely untrue in the first paragraph. If you give up your credibility at the beginning you've forfited the game

    These regulations have accreted over time with virtually no cost-benefit analysis.

Land use regulation cost/benefit was the topic of at least one guest lecture a year when I was an economics student and several professors in the department had done work in the field. Do politicians listen? Not much...