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🗓️ 15 June 2017
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Without zoning, we're told, the layout of neighborhoods and cities would be hideous and irrational, and residents would be unhappy. Is this so? And would zoning exist in a free society?
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 932. |
0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
0:08.1 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
0:14.6 | Men, it's time to say goodbye to those $99 suits on the clearance rack. |
0:19.3 | This week, my listeners can get any premium Indochino suit for just $379 at |
0:25.7 | Indochino.com when entering Woods at checkout. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. I did an episode, |
0:32.9 | probably two episodes ago, I guess, on housing and housing prices. |
0:40.3 | And in the course of that discussion, I mentioned zoning. |
0:42.0 | And I said I'd do an episode on zoning. |
0:47.6 | Well, okay, zoning is not the world's most exciting topic, but it's got to be covered at some point. |
0:53.8 | And for the sake of thoroughness, before I hit episode 1,000, we are mentioning and talking about zoning. |
0:55.7 | So to talk about zoning, we are going all the way to Australia, to our old friend Ben O'Neill, who has been on the show before a couple |
1:01.5 | of times. He's a great writer. He's a lecturer in statistics at the University of New South Wales, |
1:06.8 | and he's got a great article on zoning. So I thought he's my victim. |
1:12.0 | Ben, welcome. |
1:12.9 | Thanks very much for having me, Tom. |
1:14.7 | Ben, you know, the other day I was doing an episode on housing and I just happened to |
1:19.0 | stumble across your article on zoning, which I'd never seen before, which is very thorough. |
1:23.7 | And it occurred to me that in over 900 episodes, I've never talked about zoning. |
1:28.2 | So I thought, let's let Ben do the heavy lifting, given that he's written this article on it. |
1:33.0 | Of course, I'm linking to it at tomwoods.com slash 932. |
1:36.7 | People would like to read it for themselves. |
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