Traffic

Economists are generally one-trick ponies on the subject of urban transportation: get the prices right (with congestion taxes) and let the market decide. We’re big fans of that trick – it has worked wonders for London and Singapore. Once you acknowledge the complexities created by everything from network effects to …

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Memory Loss

In the late 1970s, America’s freight railroads were collectively bankrupt, victims of a combination of rapacious unions, bad management and regulatory squeeze between long-distance truckers and well-organized shipping interests. Three decades later, they are financially healthy and delivering much better service. Consolidation, better management and some concessions from organized labor …

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