[Swordmaker]

Sowell doesn't know what he's talking about. He's discounting that the reason the land would be cheap if the restrictions were lifted on development is that environmental laws have socialized so many assets on the land as to have depressed its value for anything but development. The distortions are everywhere, and politicians run around plugging them with yet more dirty deals.

I am sorry Carry, but I too am an Economist and Sowell DOES know what he is talking about. It looks like your book has little to do with economics but more to do with the Environmental movement pressures. . . but those are economic too. Just because choices place ENVIRONMENTAL economies over other economic choices. . . doesn't mean that Sowell doesn't understand those choices.

Liberals are making those choices that are placing the pressures on the people least able to afford the economic costs of those decisions. Those liberals don't think of those choices as being economic at all. . . or even as having economic costs attached to them. It just makes them feel good and they think they can afford such nice things off in the distance as open space down there or over there or even in "my neighborhood", as in their minds, everyone else can.

I think you probably have an intuitive handle on the same issues that Sowell is pointing out Economically, and if you were to discuss it with him, you, he and I would wind up on the same page, just from different approaches. The environmentalists have a hammer, and everything the see is a nail. . . bang! There is a mix which would take into account the environment, housing demands, water, AG, power, etc., but the environmentalists use their hammer to BANG everything and nothing can happen as long as they use their hammer on everything in sight.

Your book sounds interesting. . .

[Carry_Okie]

I am sorry Carry, but I too am an Economist and Sowell DOES know what he is talking about. It looks like your book has little to do with economics but more to do with the Environmental movement pressures.

Oh, is that what the analysis of 14,000 real estate transactions on a real-time opportunity-cost, inflation adjusted basis against the 30-year bond is about?

I three am an economist, besides having an engineering degree.

Just because choices place ENVIRONMENTAL economies over other economic choices. . . doesn't mean that Sowell doesn't understand those choices.

The book proposes market-based means to account for the trade-offs between environmental externalities, mitigations, offsets, and risks with pricing determined without any interference by government or academics for which I was awarded a business method patent that is capable of invalidating the Bartels carbon trading patent by prior art. Try reading a little more before posting. M-kay?