Karen - 

Very good stuff. It's obviously about taking land-use
*planning* seriously and having a planning regime. 

But this is all so wishy-washy and not nearly as VIRILE or
exciting as the thrusting forward of unfettered GROWTH. I do
mean seriously that there is a gendered element here -
planning is housekeeping, managing a domestic space, whereas
entrepreneurial empire-building is a swashbuckling
hard-nosed un-sheltered encounter with REALITY. I'll make
the world, you wash up. (Our politics is overly dominated by
swashbucklers *and* some would say that parliamentary
systems with first-past-the-post electoral schemes are
strongly *biased* in favour of swashbucklers & bullies.) 

Anyway, I will catch my breath now. I asked: 
>      Has anyone done this proper kind of "social cost"
>      accounting?  

In your dispatch you mention
> ... The New Rules web site ... [whose] banner reads 
> Designing Rules as if Community Matters. 
> (see www.newrules.org)

and somewhere in the back of my memory is a booklet or book
by David Ross (in Ottawa) called *Economics as if
Communities Matter* or something like that. 

Arthur, you know David I think. Is this correct? Is the text
on-line somewhere? (If you know then I/we don't have to
search.) 

Thanks, 

Stephen 

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