Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Housing regulation as the largest self-inflicted wound in the rich world, argued in pictures, on the economics first and then squarely on the ethics.
A second illustrated argument, this time that housing regulation is the largest self-inflicted wound in the developed world, raising rents, suppressing mobility and slowing growth. Caplan works through the economics first and then the ethics, arguing that restricting what people may build on their own land requires a justification which nobody has actually supplied.
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