Archive - Baldwin

Foundations: Why Britain has stagnated

My essay with Samuel Hughes and Sam Bowman

Sep 21 •

June 2024

The culture and economics of fertility cannot be separated

Fixing our birth rates will inevitably involve tackling both

Jun 20 •

One weird trick to get data centres built

My post with Sam Bowman over on Consumer Surplus and more

Jun 17 •

May 2024

Developing Palo Alto is worth $1 trillion

And every household that lives there now could have $30 million

May 9 •

March 2024

How to build cut and cover

It may not all be over for the least popular type of tunneling

Mar 15 •

October 2023

When roads are bad

Roads deliver huge benefits, but they have two big costs

Oct 17, 2023 •

Why induced demand is fake

And roads are a pretty good way of creating agglomeration, actually

Oct 10, 2023 •

The dark secret underlying high infrastructure costs

In the UK we have two problems.

Oct 2, 2023 •

April 2023

How to think about immigration and housing

Since Brits own Britain, more demand for Britain is generally good for us

Apr 27, 2023 •

March 2023

Low traffic neighbourhoods are a type of cul-de-sac

Except without the biggest downsides of cul-de-sacs

Mar 14, 2023 •

November 2022

Are we really going to have to do all this again?

Worrying about the Bank of England's plan for a big recession

Nov 7, 2022 •

October 2022

Regional inequality: also a housing supply issue

The Housing Theory of Everything demo version

Oct 14, 2022 •

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