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MODEL CITIZEN is an interview podcast that explores big, new ideas in politics and policy with captivating original thinkers ... premised on the idea that we have a duty as citizens and neighbors to build our mental models of the world with as little error, bias, and lunacy as possible. Guests discuss how they've arrived at their conclusions, mistakes they've made, people and methods they trust and distrust, and how they've changed their minds. Hosted by WILL WILKINSON, Vice President for Research at the Niskanen Center and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. <a href="https://modelcitizen.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">modelcitizen.substack.com</a>

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April 16, 2021

How Zoning Screws up Everything

This is my question: can we <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIMBY">YIMBY</a> harder? Many people are awakening to the enormous costs of restrictive municipal land use and zoning. But what can we do about it? Most assume that restrictive zoning and skyrocketing housing costs are local issues that require local solutions. But as my guest, David Schleicher, makes clear, that's not really true. A few superstar cities choking off housing supply has huge national implications. It creates massive distortions in labor markets and patterns of interstate labor mobility. This has left us a lot poorer than we'd be if our most productive cities were more relaxed about zoning. But as David points out in his terrific paper, “<a target="_blank" href="https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/stuck-the-law-and-economics-of-residential-stagnation">Stuck: The Law and Economics of Residential Stability</a>,” these distortions also screw up the effectiveness of federal macroeconomic policy, which does additional damage to growth. I'm writing a paper about this stuff and I've actually become more rather than less confused about why the federal government can't directly intervene to remedy a problem that has immense national implications. That's why I wanted to talk to David, my favorite YIMBY law professor. If anybody would know, it'd be him. Along the way we talk about the weirdness of American single-family residential zoning, the “homevoter hypothesis,” and whether the pandemic means that telecommuting is here forever. David Schleicher is <a target="_blank" href="https://law.yale.edu/david-n-schleicher">Professor of Law at Yale Law School</a>, a New Yorker, and a hell of a nice guy.Readings“<a target="_blank" href="https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/stuck-the-law-and-economics-of-residential-stagnation">Stuck: The Law and Economics of Residential Stability</a>” by David Schleicher“<a target="_blank" href="https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-101-issue-1/planning-an-affordable-city/">Planning an Affordable City</a>,” by Roderick Hills and David Schleicher “<a target="_blank" href="https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/city-unplanning">City Unplanning</a>,” by David Schleicher <a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3tlAZ4O">The Homevoter Hypothesis</a> by William Fischel<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3dnbjPG">Zoning and Property Rights</a> by Robert Nelson“<a target="_blank" href="https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1469&context=fss_papers#:~:text=Suburban%20Growth%20Controls%3A%20An%20Economic%20and%20Legal%20Analysis,suburban%20municipalities%20to%20create%20a%20bias%20against%20growth.">Suburban Growth Controls: An Economic and Legal Analysi</a>s,” by Robert Ellickson <a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/2RCc8M5">Segregation by Design</a> by Jessica Trounstine<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/2QbPAS7">Zoned in the USA</a> by Sonia Hirt“<a target="_blank" href="https://www.vox.com/22252625/america-racist-housing-rules-how-to-fix">America’s racist housing rules really can be fixed</a>” by Jerusalem Demsas“<a target="_blank" href="https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjreg/vol37/iss2/4/">Federal Grant Rules and Realities in the Intergovernmental Administrative State: Compliance, Performance, and Politics</a>” by Eloise Passachoff—© Model Citizen Media, LLC 2021 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://modelcitizen.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">modelcitizen.substack.com</a>

April 5, 2021

Freedom from the Market

Nearly everyone agrees that the American system is, in some sense, rigged. If it is, then how did it get that way. Mike Konczal (<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/rortybomb">@rortybomb</a>), Director of Progressive Thought at the Roosevelt Institute, a left-leaning think tank, argues that America has come to rely too heavily on markets. In his new book, <a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3dCpjUM">Freedom from the Market: America's Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand</a>, Konczal pushes back against the idea that "neo-liberal" market dependency is natural, inevitable, or even especially American. Drawing on the history of American policy from the founding up to now, he argues that markets are inseparable from politics -- that they are, effectively, government programs. But markets don't necessarily give people what they need, can't provide essential goods to people who can't pay, and can leave us subject to domination from the economically powerful. In a wide-ranging conversation, we touch on the appeal and implications of the republican conception of freedom as non-domination, World War II-era government daycares, the function that Medicare played in desegregating hospitals, the nature of so-called neoliberalism, and a lot more. When Mike sent me his book, he included a note expressing his intention to turn me into a social democrat. I'm not sure that he succeeded, but one thing our chat made clear to me is that once you're willing to accept that markets are essentially political and that market structure is a policy choice, it’s possible to have a constructive conversation free of dogmatic ideological table-pounding. Readings<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3dCpjUM">Freedom from the Market: America's Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand</a> by Mike Konczal<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3mt55Rq">From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century</a> by Alex Gourevitch<a target="_blank" href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities">Land-grab universities</a> by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone, High Country News<a target="_blank" href="Social insurance, with special reference to American conditions">Social Insurance: With Special Reference to American Conditions</a> by I.M. Rubinow (1918)<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3cOsd9y">The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?</a> by Gerald Rosenberg<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/kludgeocracy-in-america">Kludgeocracy in America by Steven Teles</a>, American Affairs<a target="_blank" href="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/18/15992226/neoliberalism-chait-austerity-democratic-party-sanders-clinton">“Neoliberalism” isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas</a> by Mike Konczal, Vox<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3wq7qky">The Submerged State: How Invisible Policies Undermine American Democracy</a> by Suzanne Mettler<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3dyPifQ">Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism</a> by Melinda Cooper--© Model Citizen Media, LLC 2021 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://modelcitizen.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">modelcitizen.substack.com</a>

January 30, 2021

Richard Florida on the Post-Pandemic City

This episode marks the beginning of a new chapter for Model Citizen. With the power of a single mighty tweet, I've broken off the shackles of formal institutional affiliation. So we're on our own. Let's just say it's been a hell of a week. In that time, I've launched a daily newsletter, also called Model Citizen, which I've integrated with this podcast. If you'd like to support me, and the burgeoning Model Citizen media empire, please consider subscribing at modelcitizen.substack.com. It's just $5.99 a month. In addition to thought-provoking writing delivered straight to your inbox, subscribers get audio versions of articles, special episodes of the Model Citizen podcast and more. But on with the show! This week's guest, Richard Florida, is one of our leading authorities on cities and urban life. Richard is author of a shelf of books, including the Rise of the Creative Class and, most recently, the New Urban Crisis. In this episode, we talk about the extent to which work-from-home arrangements will or won't stick after the pandemic, whether San Francisco faces the fate of urban powerhouses of yesteryear, like Pittsburgh and Detroit, how self-reinforcing selection effects have made academia stifling, and more. Richard Florida is University Professor at the University of Toronto's School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, as well as a Distinguished Fellow at NYU's Schack School of Real Estate. And, as you'll see, he's also a hell of a nice guy.Readings<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/2MfYOuB">The Rise of the Creative Class</a> by Richard Florida<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3t8GTXc">Who’s Your City</a> by Richard FloridaJason Rentfrow’s <a target="_blank" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TZ9YLMoAAAAJ&hl=en">Google Scholar page</a><a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/2KZTN8K">Triumph of the City</a> by Ed Glaeser<a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2020-04-03/jonathan-miller-on-real-estate-after-the-coronavirus-podcast">Jonathan Miller on Real Estate after the Pandemic</a>, Bloomberg Masters in Business podcast<a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/2YvM3yk">Prison Notebooks</a> by Antonio GramsciSubscribe to the Model Citizen newsletter<a target="_blank" href="https://modelcitizen.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=web&utm_source=subscribe-widget&utm_content=31938378">http://modelcitizen.substack.com/subscribe</a>CreditsHost: Will Wilkinson (@willwilkinson)Music: Dig Deep by RW Smith This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://modelcitizen.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">modelcitizen.substack.com</a>

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What is Model Citizen?: MODEL CITIZEN is an interview podcast that explores big, new ideas in politics and policy with captivating original thinkers ... premised on the idea that we have a duty as citizens and neighbors to build our mental models of the world with as little error, bias, and lunacy as possible. Guests discuss how they've arrived at their conclusions, mistakes they've made, people and methods they trust and distrust, and how they've changed their minds.

Hosted by WILL WILKINSON, Vice President for Research at the Niskanen Center and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. <a href="https://modelcitizen.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">modelcitizen.substack.com</a>
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