WEEK OF DECEMBER 15, 2025
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FEATURED READING

Barriers to Affordable Housing ([link removed])

By Tyler Watts and Joel Watts

Much of the increase in home prices can be explained by Americans’ ability to pay for bigger, more luxurious homes. But not all of it. Economist Tyler Watts and his brother, Joel, a homebuilder, explain some barriers to providing more affordable homes by providing smaller, simpler housing options.
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Housing: Supply vs. Quantity ([link removed])

By David Hebert

Approaches to addressing the housing affordability crisis suffer from confusion between the roles and importance of demand, supply, and quantity supplied. Luckily, David Hebert is here to help you sort it all out (with help from James Buchanan).
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ECONLOG

Sam’s Links: Holiday Edition ([link removed])

By Sam Enright

Bulk up your reading list with our latest linkspost, featuring everything from $1 margaritas to lifeguards to AI and democracy. Sam also has listening and viewing recommendations to keep you entertained as you settle in for the holidays.

BOOK REVIEW

Exploring The Chile Project ([link removed])

By JP Bastos

Bastos reviews Sebástian Edwards’ The Chile Project, and in the process explores the relationship between Milton Friedman, the Chilean economic miracle, and the fate of neoliberalism.
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Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid with William Easterly ([link removed])

Can the promise of economic progress ever justify conquest, coercion, and control over other people’s lives? Economist William Easterly ([link removed]) joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts ([link removed]) to argue no, and to rethink what "development" really means in theory, in history, and in our politics today.
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