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01 / evaluation
“I think community institutions are important, and in a practical sense, religious ones are what seems to really work for people.”
02 / evaluation
“I think you’ve seen, in some ways, the biggest YIMBY political successes in Oregon rather than in the Bay Area, and the people who work on that — they all say to me that the fact that the prices are not as high as they are in the Bay Area is helpful to them, that it becomes more comprehensible to people why new construction, new market-rate construction improves the market because it’s not so mindbogglingly out of reach for normal people.”
03 / evaluation
“I sometimes think, well, one reason that the governance standouts are small is that there’s more variance in the small countries because there’s a lot of them.”
04 / evaluation
“I was working on this book at an early time, and I was in Midtown Manhattan where even New Yorkers don’t go because it’s so terrible, and it’s full of people — I think full of people who would tell you nobody likes going to Midtown Manhattan, and there must be some reason for that.”
05 / evaluation
“I think the idea of trying to turn the United States into a giant Denmark, where people are reasonably affluent, but there’s no really big-deal things happening here, like some guy who makes windmills.”