Works in Progress Podcast· Folge 5

The underrated economics of land with Mike Bird

Freitag, 15. August 2025 · 1 h 16

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Why is Chinese housing so expensive despite being oversupplied? How did land reforms in Russia lead to the Bolshevik revolution? What killed Georgism? The Economist’s Wall Street Editor, Mike Bird, discusses the underrated economics of land.
You can preorder Mike's book here (amazon.co.uk/Land-Trap-History-Worlds-Oldest/d…) and read more about land readjustment in Works in Progress Issue 19 (worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-redraw-a-city).

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