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Mark Mollineaux

Dedicated to exploring several forgotten economic ideas. Can they solve modern problems?

  1. May 29

    Kirsten Bladh, Behind the Scenes on SB79 and How Transit Value Capture Got Gutted

    Kirsten Bladh, of Open New York, and previously of Streets for All, talks about her experience with SB79 getting passed in Sacramento, and how unfortunate sacrifices were made for transit value capture. Discussion on whether transit agencies are really fighting for themselves, reforming local control, transit governance reform, and inevitable talk about Cincinnati

  2. Mar 26

    Jake Berman on Lost Subways, and finding our way forward

    Jake Berman is the author of The Lost Subways of North America, a book full of maps and histories of metro areas and the transit they've lost; what can we learn from this erosion of public infrastructure, and what do we need to do to build something better?

  3. Feb 12

    "An Introduction to Land Value Tax", with Stephen Hoskins

    Something new: an attempt at actually creating an introductory episode to Land Value Tax. Why *should* anyone care?

  4. Jan 16

    Joshua B. Freeman on Garden Apartments, and the Secret Policy that Juiced Apartment Building

    Joshua B. Freeman, professor of history at Queens College CUNY, and author of "Garden Apartments: The History of a Low-Rent Utopia", is here to discuss to discuss this almost invisible history of combining greenspace with dense low-rise apartments. We cover the radical ideology (georgist and otherwise) that inspired this movement, compare it against European social housing, and discuss how it actually came into action in the New Deal and beyond. Special focus on the secret history of Section 608, and how subtle policy details in government insurance of mortgages for rental apartments turbo-charged their production. What can we learn from this for the future of production of missing middle, social housing, and more?

  5. 10/30/2025

    Sy Adler on the Birth of BART, Interregional Competition, and Real Estate Development

    Sy Adler, professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University, is here to talk about his 1980 manuscript, Redundancy in Public Transit - Vol III. The Political Economy of Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-63, which documents the complicated political territory in various metros and sub-metros that led to the birth of BARTD. We also discuss the rise of municipal ownership in bus agencies, real estate development, land value capture, sprawl, and much more.

  6. 09/02/2025

    Daniel Wortel-London on Land Values, Growth, and the Menace of Prosperity

    We have on Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his new book "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981", which covers a century of ideological evolution as to urban economics, growth strategies, the georgist movement, sprawl, and much more; in what ways can the political topography of 19th century urban politics still tell us about the future of modern cities?

  7. 06/06/2025

    'Abundance': Hits and Misses, with Chirag Lala and Adriana Rizzo

    Everybody's talking about Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's 'Abundance', the book about the future of a Democratic Party politics about building more; we have on Chirag Lala (director of energy for the Center of Public Enterprise) and Adriana Rizzo (of Californians for Electric Rail, among other hats worn) to talk about what the book does right, and what it misses; deep dive into energy policy, overview of its housing policy sins and omissions, and a loose discussion on its curious concept of politics.

  8. 05/13/2025

    Introducing the Center for Land Economics, with Greg Miller

    The Center for Land Economics has just launched; its co-founder Greg Miller is here to talk about its mission to spread LVT, better judge assesssor offices, and explain how to work with state governments. We talk about state-level enabling legislation and constitutional hurdles, and much more.

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Dedicated to exploring several forgotten economic ideas. Can they solve modern problems?

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  • Creator
    Mark Mollineaux
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    144
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2017-2026, The Henry George Program Family
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