Nashville Bastiat Society: “Build, Baby, Build; The Science and Ethics of Housing”
September 30, 2021
The Political Economy Research Institute and AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville hosted an event on Sept. 30 at 6 p.m. at the Richland Country Club with Bryan Caplan, New York Times best-selling author, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a PERI affiliated faculty member.
Can one big policy change sharply improve living standards, inequality, social mobility, crime, birthrates, the environment, and much more? Yes, and the name of the big policy change is “housing deregulation”. In this talk, based on his forthcoming non-fiction graphic novel, Caplan argues that housing deregulation is a genuine policy panacea, able to simultaneously remedy a long list of seemingly intractable social ills. All government has to do is get out of the way, repealing regulations of building height, multi-family structures, lot sizes, parking, and more. Would deregulation create any new problems? Almost certainly, but they’re a rounding error compared to the gains.
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The Bastiat Society of Nashville’s speaker series is co-sponsored by The Beacon Center of Tennessee & The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) (affiliated with Middle Tennessee State University).
This co-sponsorship does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the speakers’ positions on the issues discussed.
This co-sponsorship does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the speakers’ positions on the issues discussed.
About the spearker: Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, a New York Times Bestselling author. Bryan wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter , named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times , Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , The Case Against Education , and Open Borders (co-authored with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal's Zach Weinersmith). His latest project, Poverty: Who To Blame , is now well underway.
