Jack Billings
johnhbillings.bsky.social
PhD Economist in Pittsburgh - Housing and tax policy https://johnhbillings.github.io
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under national socialism you called your boss "gauleiter" and under communism you called him "comrade commissar" but the actual power structure is more similar than you might think the colors of the banners are different, but the basic command-economy-ness rhymes well
Show Postone of the angry reactions to this article has been "no that's authoritarianism!!" and what is actually quite striking, imo, about the political economies of nazism and communism is how similar they were the nazis weren't capitalists lmao. "gleichstaltung" is just another word for "party-state."
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Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.
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this in turn is a major driver of developers’ reputation for corruption!
Show Postone of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!
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