Build, Baby, Build!

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Mike welcomes back to the show George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan to discuss his book, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation. Topics Mike and Bryan discuss include: - why housing prices are so high - bipartisan agreement on housing deregulation - the value of building more high-rise residential units - the many costs of NIMBYism - the Supreme Court and housing regulation - government housing regulations that do make sense - building and immigration - which jurisdictions are moving in the right direction - and lots more! Bryan on X Bryan’s Substack: Bet on It The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the Sustainable Planet podcast, as well as the free Sustainable Planet Substack. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.1	So for fact sake, search the economist.
0:30.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired widows, vandal, Oolagulloghs.
0:35.1	Love the government, hug the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government,
0:39.7	love the government, hug the government.
0:42.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on
0:46.6	American politics and policy.
0:48.7	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski.
0:52.6	My guest today, George Mason University economist Brian Kaplan, well, he barely needs an
0:57.6	introduction, I think, to politics guys' listeners, because Brian's been on to show a bunch
1:02.5	of times, and that's because he keeps on coming out with so much interesting stuff, and I
1:08.3	just love talking with him about it.
1:10.5	Today, what we're going to be
1:11.5	talking about is his book, Build Baby Build, the Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation.
1:18.6	Brian Kaplan, welcome back. Fantastic to be here, Michael. So I wanted to start, I guess with a
1:24.2	story that will probably resonate with you. A few years ago, Kimberly and I were
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