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New Book – The Economics of Property and Planning: Relevance and Importance

Given the imminent release of my new book ‘The Economics of Property and Planning’, here is some text on the book’s relevance and importance. Both

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Economic Geography and Space

Ideas of place in the economics property and planning cannot escape the concepts of space and spatial considerations held with economic geography. Space as a

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Transport and Infrastructure Economics in Property and Planning

It is quite widely thought that the role of infrastructure, particularly transport, is one useful way to understand the history of places. Particularly by looking

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On Justice in Property and Planning – Normative Economics in Action

For economics in property, the legal real property consideration of justice resonates in economics and the economy. Early writers on justice such as  Paine (1797)

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Making clear the inflation question – what does this mean for planning ‘property’?

Stable prices are a macroeconomic consideration for nations and the places contained within their boundaries. For places, changes in inflation or changes in the prices

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Brownfield Development: Some Historical Context, Barriers, and Issues

Brownfield sites can generate negative externality on real estate value, profit, and productivity. The use and development of brownfield sites are perceived to be risky

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Financialization in Property and Planning

The contribution of financialization discourse to capital and inequality is particularly interesting to economics in property and planning. Epstein’s (2005) ‘Financialization and The World Economy’

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What is Urban? Fundamentals to growing and shrinking cities in a Covid World

There are several conversations going on that consider the growth and decline of cities given their changing function in a Covid world. Such as why

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Home at last: how COVID took homelessness off the streets

Home at last: how COVID took homelessness off the streets During the pandemic, many homeless people were housed in hotels – it was supposed to

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David Ricardo on Land Rents and Comparative Advantage

To deal with the economic issues of property, the work by David Ricardo (1772 – 1823) provides a dimension on how trade and the relative

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Why does the value of money erode? Human Nature, Time, and Discounting

For major project feasibility and decision making, if cost and benefit items have been identified and valued, the net difference of costs and benefits need

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Innovative infrastructure funding needed for affordable homes

The infrastructure levy introduced last year is a start but New Zealand is behind its contemporaries. Massey University economics professor Graham Squires More weight needs

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Property investors and ‘moral obligation’

Private rental property owners do not have a moral obligation to provide houses to anyone, including vulnerable tenants, the New Zealand Property Investors Federation says.

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The Malthusian Problem of Feeding a Population

Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) was one writer who took concerns of economic growth and population rise as a consequence of the industrial revolution and extrapolated via

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Private infrastructure charges ‘the answer to boost housing supply’

Private housing infrastructure funding charges might be the best way to speed up development and boost housing supply, a property academic says. House prices increased

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Regressing into Regressions – A checklist

The definitions given here are designed to understand the more technical parts of statistical regression analysis. I often find this type of work can help

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The Problem with an Economic Valuation of the Environment

The valuation of external costs and benefits will be difficult but necessary if the full cost or benefit to society and the environment is to

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The Economics of Choice and Opportunity Cost in Development

Choice is an important element in economic thinking if there are scarce resources and infinite wants. Places that are booming will have to make choices,

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The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) – Paying for Public Goods with Private Money

[2000 Words; 10 minute Read] The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is defined as a form of procurement to encourage private investment in public sector projects.

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The Economics of Water – Cost, Price and Value of a ‘Free’ Natural Resource

[1500 Words; 10 Minute Read] This article looks at ‘environmental resource’ issues in connection with water. We look at ‘externalities’ as the third-party costs and

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New Zealand Tenure Changes 1991 to 2016

Given some recent announcements on social (public) housing provision in New Zealand, I have graphed the changes in tenure since 1991 to the start of

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How can you Value the Built and Natural Environment? Cost-Benefit Analysis

[2000 Words; 20 Minute Read] There are forms of market failure due to external costs and benefits that need to be calculated and internalized to

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Housing Affordability Determinants

[1100 Words; 4 Minute Read] “Decent, affordable housing is fundamental to the health and well-being of people and to the smooth functioning of economies” (Woetzel

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The Built and Natural Environment According to Economists – The Early Years.

[3100 Words; Reading Time 24 Mins] Ideas, concepts and theories are developed from intellectual thoughts that are of importance when studying urban and environmental economics.

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Housing Tenure Debate Video – ‘The Economist’

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Comparative House Price Index

Interesting house price index from The Economist post GFC

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House price affordability, the global financial crisis and the (ir)relevance of mortgage rates

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2 years on: Is the Housing Affordability crisis still a crisis?

Here’s part of an article I wrote for the main online NZ media outlet stuff.co.nz on housing affordability prior to the 2017 election… Talk of

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Solutions to the housing crisis – Housing Associations in the Private Rented Sector?

            How do housing stakeholders align future private and public spending to identify investment opportunities and help meet the City’s broader economic and spatial

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Urban water economics – putting a value, price, and cost on natural resources

Environmental resource issues involving water need to consider third-party external costs (and benefits) – water pollution being one example. Natural resource economics can be applied to this issue and set in

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Influential books #98 Building Procurement by Brian Greenhalgh and Graham Squires

Best there is if you are interested in procuring and building

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Influential books #97 Urban and environmental economics by Graham Squires

And what a book.

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Influential books #96 Economics and property by Danny Myers

Wonderful introduction to economics in the field of property from my old room mate.

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Influential books #94 In defense of housing by Peter Marcuse and David Madden

Arguing the case for housing as needing radical political and economic attention

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Influential books #93 The Affordable Housing Reader edited by Rosie Tighe and Elizabeth Mueller

Good compendium of journal papers looking at affordable housing as the contemporary crisis unfolds

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Influential books #92 Global Shift by Peter Dicken

Major textbook on globalisation of the economy in the social sciences.

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Influential books #91 Modern Urban and Regional Economics by Philip McCann

Spatial application of economic theory using old and new modelling techniques to look at urban and regional phenomena.

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Influential books #89 Irrational exuberance by Robert Shiller

Arguing early on that markets are driven by psychological and social factors rather than fundamental values. Especially in later editions that consider housing market bubbles.

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Influential books #87 Urban economics by Arthur O’Sullivan

Long running textbook that introduces the basics of urban economic theory and concepts. As well as some economic policy ideas to deal with urban problems.

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Influential books #86 The Age Of Capital 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm

1860 saw the birth of capitalism in political language. This book explores the period where private enterprise is maintained in a belief of developing economic

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Influential books #85 Cities in the urban age by Robert Beauregard

Important stocktake that cities should not necessarily be celebrated given their contradictions, and that these tensions make cities what they are.

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Influential books #83 Keys to the city by Michael Storper

Urban and economic geography, looking at what makes cities grow and decline. Particular focus on urban development from forces that are economic, institutional, innovational/interactional, and

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Influential books #82 The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun

Islamic history and more importantly the birth of modern sociology 400 years before Comte.

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Influential books #81 Urban Economics by John Hartwick

Largely mathematical underpinning of urban economics principles, that help those new to subject have a clear and precise introduction

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Influential books #80 Urban Economics and Real Estate by John McDonald and Daniel McMillen

Useful economics text on real estate in cities , with examples helping to demonstrate the theory and practice

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Influential books #78 The Anthropology of Time : Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images by Alfred Gell

Looking at how societies see time, particularly as an economic ‘resource’ both natural and cultural

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Influential books #75 The order of things by Michel Foucault

Postmodern thinking on taxonomies, in that structures are set within the parameters of their own historical epistemological norms such as scientific discourse. Subtitled the ‘Archaeology

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Influential books #73 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes

Famous for macroeconomic thinking on the positives of fiscal intervention as counter-cyclical to peaks and troughs in growth.

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Influential books #62 Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall

Popularising early thought on human behaviour in the neoclassical economics paradigm – diagrams, maths, marginal utilities, and elasticities being embedded as principles.

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Influential books #60 Stabilizing an unstable economy by Hyman Minsky

Book that attracted new attention post global financial crisis, in that accumulation of non-government debt creates a condition for instability in the economy.

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Influential books #56 Capitalism and freedom by Milton Friedman

Work post WW2 that promotes the idea of limited government involvement, to enable universal market efficiency, and thus liberalism in the sense of individual freedoms.

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Influential books #55 A theory of justice by John Rawls

A touchstone for political theory of distributive justice, looking normatively to rebalance equality of opportunity and helping the more disadvantaged in society.

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Influential books #49 The global city by Saskia Sassen

One of the first to crystallise thinking of city economies working as hierarchies in a global system

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