Why not? So many other people do; it makes me wonder what it is they
dislike so much about these communities. Is it political?
What many of the people I have talked to tell me they want is a house in a
neighborhood where they (or their kids) can walk or ride a bike to at least some of
the
Economists are not hostile to public goods.
I guess I did overstate it a bit. Among my more conservative, pro-market economist
friends, there is a general suspicion of the public goods argument. I think that
mostly, this comes from a distrust of government. Fair enough. Anyway, that is where
