Thirty years ago, Congress failed by just one vote to send to the states a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced…

This paper investigates the effect of affordable housing obligations in New Jersey on cost of living, cost of housing, and…

Activists from the left have tried to “cancel” me multiple times. I lost an academic job opportunity despite the support…

“I don’t give a sh*t what you call it.” So wrote Vice President J.D. Vance in response to journalist Brian…

Don’t look now, but free-market economics is coming back into vogue. For the last decade, mainstream economists of both the…

Before Amazon.com existed, you had to buy books — and any number of other things — at physical stores. If…

In a recent blog post, Matt Yglesias chides northeastern Republicans for opposing pro-housing deregulation in state legislatures: Republicans have led…

How do property taxes work in the United States, and what are their economic consequences?

Republicans in Congress are moving along with their “big, beautiful bill” to extend tax cuts, create some new tax provisions,…

A debate is raging over housing policy. Many state lawmakers have proposed overriding local growth controls — land-use regulations on…