Index

A

Alaska 1, 5, 8, 130, 135, 197, 226, 227, 237, 256

Albouy, David 70, 71, 75, 78, 80, 85, 86, 98, 109, 110, 180, 189

Allen, Paul 138

Allen, Woody 8, 95, 144

Altman, Sam 231

American Bankers Association (ABA) 106

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The 65

American Society of Landscape Architects 19

Anderson, Phil J. 145, 164, 241

Anster, John 37

Ashok (blogger) 42, 43, 44

Ashton, Riley 45

Asimov, Isaac 105

Aspen, Colorado 5, 8, 48, 70, 116, 184, 226, 228, 233, 238, 253, 256

Auden, W. H. 41

B

Bacon, Roger 13

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) 159

Banks, Ronald 39

BEEF Daily 42

Bell, Alexander Graham 136

Billy Budd 174

BizShifts-Trends 39

Black, Bill 162

BlackRock 55, 56

Bloomberg 20, 62

Borsodi, Ralph 224

Brandeis, Louis 199

Branson, Richard 231

Bruce, Lenny 61

Buffett, Warren 54, 180

BuildZoom 19

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) 22, 23, 75, 76, 112, 115, 212

Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) 75, 76, 117

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 33, 80, 81

Business Insider 42

Butler, Smedley 154

Butterfield, Stewart 231

C

Camplin, Troy 165

Capital Group 55

Capital in the 21st Century 142, 259

Carlin, George 187

Case, Karl E. 38, 40, 66, 68, 74, 86, 188, 189, 191

Cassidy, John 52

Census Bureau 33, 66, 76, 77, 78, 98, 105, 122, 189, 202

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) 66, 73

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 33, 202

Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) 178

Chronicle Review, The 14

Churchill, Winston 199

CitiGroup 55

CityLab 19

Cleveland, Grover 199

Cobell, Elouise 254

Cohen, Jeffrey P. 68

Confucius 13, 23

Conversation, The 48

Cord, Steve 39, 65, 70, 112

Corruption of Economics, The 49

CoStar 77, 191

Costello, Claire 34, 50

Coughlin, Cletus C. 68

D

Dachille, Frank 208

Daly, Herman 165

Davis, Morris A. 66, 67, 97, 162

Deatonjan, Angus 35

Demographia 19

Dire Straits 8

Disraeli, Benjamin 92

Domesday Book 13

Domhoff, G. William 56, 179

Dubner, Stephen J. 179, 180

Duncan, Otis Dudley 92

Dwyer, Terry 39

E

Earle, Joe 159

Ebeling, Richard 84, 85, 110, 112

Econocracy, The 159

Economic Way of Thinking, The 163

Edison, Tom 49, 123, 223

Ehrlich, Gabriel 70

Einstein, Albert 13, 36, 135, 136, 164, 172, 208, 239

Eisenhower, Dwight 123

Ellison, Keith 231

Epstein, Gerald 143, 144

Estes, Ralph 131, 132

Evans, David 233

F

FactCheck.org 180

Fannie Mae 74, 202

Faraday, Michael 208

Farmer’s Almanac 162

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 33, 121

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 74

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) 68, 74, 189

Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) 81, 118

Federal Reserve (Fed) vii, viii, 19, 33, 41, 42, 44, 53, 59, 63, 65-68, 70, 76, 88, 91, 92, 95, 98, 101, 103, 105, 106, 116, 117, 146-155, 158, 162, 169, 170, 191, 202, 218

Felber, Adam 29

Fields, W.C. 107, 133

F.I.R.E. (Finance, Insurance, & Real Estate) 14, 53, 54, 58, 59, 109, 127, 209, 213. 237

Fixed Fortunes 57

Foldvary, Fred 66, 75, 164

Fontana, Wayne 199

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 24

Forbes 45

Ford, Henry 13, 137, 138, 156, 164, 236

Foundations of Economic Analysis 156

Franklin, Ben ii, 13, 154

Freakonomics 179

Freddie Mac 74, 116, 202

Friedman, Milton 88, 156

Frohlich, Thomas C. 40

Fukuoka, Masanobu 145

Fuller, Buckminster 230, 234

G

Gaffney, Mason 49, 103, 112, 249

Galbraith, James K. 151, 162

Gandhi, Mohandas 187

Gates, Bill 56, 138, 180, 231

General Services Administration (GSA) 81

George, Henry vi, 48, 49, 65, 135, 164, 167, 192, 223, 232

George, Lloyd 199

German Economic Review 68

Getty, J. Paul 227

Giovannoni, Olivier 151

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 37

Goldman Sachs 153

Government Accountability Office (GAO) 33, 81, 85

Gray, Elisha 136

Greenspan, Alan 95, 119, 150

Guardian, The 20, 88, 157

Gwartney, Ted 103

H

Harper’s 183

Harrison, Fred 61, 164

Harvard University 2, 12, 19, 50, 88, 161, 234, 248

Hasenöhrl, Fritz 136

Hassett, Kevin A. 139

Hawking, Stephen 231

Hayek, F.A. 165

Heathcote, Jonathan 66, 162

Heinlein, Robert 230

Henchman, Joseph 44

Henderson, Hazel 52

Hermann, Alexander 12

Heyne, Paul 163

Homburg, Stefan 68

Hong Kong 197, 224, 238

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 33, 73, 74, 112

Hoyt, Horner 164, 204, 216

Hudson, Michael 43

Hughes, Chris 231

I

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) 179

International Monetary Fund (IMF) 159, 197, 231

Israel Moses Seif Bank 153

J

Jay, John 60, 116

Jefferson, Thomas 123, 126, 183, 197, 204

Jobs, Steve 138, 239

Johns Hopkins 49

Jorda, Oscar 47

JP Morgan Chase Bank 153

K

Kafka, Franz 107

Katz, Stanley N. 14

Kelly, Allan O. 208

Kemp, Jack 199

Kennedy, John F. (JFK) 162, 201, 203, 205

Kent, Alexander 40

Keynes, John Maynard 35, 178, 206

King, Martin Luther 232

Knibbe, Merijn 80

Knoll, Katharina 47

Koprowski, Hilary 138

Kuhn Loeb Bank 153

Kuhn, Thomas 153, 165, 256, 260

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. 69, 70

Kuvshinov, Dmitry 47

Kuznetz, Simon 23

L

Land & Liberty 61

Larson, William 44, 45, 69, 71, 78, 85, 86, 98, 108, 109, 110, 180, 189

Lazard Brothers 153

Leamer, Edward E. 15

Lehman Brothers 153

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 135, 136

Levenstein, Aaron 22

Levitt, Steven D. 179, 180

Lincoln Institute 68, 73, 98, 106

Lippmann, Walter 10

Lloyd, Toby 29

Lopez, David A. 68

M

Macfarlane, Laurie 29

Malthus, Thomas 161

Manhattan 6, 8, 43, 138, 197, 242, 254, 255, 258

Mankiw, Gregory 161

Markets & Money 19

Maxwell, James Clerk 135

McFadden, Louis T. 153

McGuire, Mike 199

McKinsey Global Institute 20, 139

Mead, Margaret 205

Mercury News 20

Meyer, Peter 183

Mill, John Stuart 17, 232

Montecino, Juan Antonio 143, 144

Moran, Cahal 159

Morath, Eric 44

Morgan, Jack 154

MSN Money 39, 40

Mulhall, Michael R. 67

Mullins, William H. 36

Mumford, Kevin J. 84

Murdoch, Rupert 54

Musk, Elon 231

Muskie, Edmund 199

Myerson, Jesse 43, 44

Myrdal, Gunnar 52

N

Nader, Ralph 138

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) 80

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 33, 73, 76, 260

National Security Agency (NSA) 33

New Economics Foundation (NEF) 178

New England Public Policy Center 19

Newton, Isaac 135, 136

New York (magazine) 39

New York Times 35

Nichols, Joseph B. 67

N.M. Rothchild of London 153

Nobel, Alfred 52

Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn, The 52

Nordhaus, William 23

Noyes, Richard 249

Nutting, Rex 47, 228

O

Offer, Avner viii, 52, 191

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 33, 81, 112, 130

Oliner, Stephen D. 67

One Straw Revolution, The 145

Overcharged: The High Cost of High Finance 143

P

Paine, Tom 197, 232

Palumbo, Michael G. 98

Perkins, Zach Ward 159

Piketty, Thomas 142, 259

Pinchot, Gifford 60

Politico 20

Pope, Jaren C. 69, 70

Popova, Anna 233

Preston, Peter 157

Progress and Poverty 135, 164

Q

Quora 45, 112

R

Radke, Amanda 42

Redstone, Sumner 54

Rethinking the Economics of
Land and Housing 29

Review of Economics and Statistics 151

Ricardo, David 42, 223

Roberts, Brian 54

Rockefeller, John D. 48

Rockefeller, William 153

Rodrik, Dani 164

Rogers, James 234

Romer, Paul 87, 99, 160

Roosevelt, Franklin (FDR) 138, 149, 199

Roosevelt, Teddy 48, 154, 175, 199

Ross, Stephen M. 50

Rothchild Bank of Berlin 153

Russell, Bertrand 16, 176, 227, 232

Russell, John 198

Russo, Ann 151

Rutledge, John 41, 42, 44, 103, 113

Ryan-Collins, Josh 29

S

Sabin, Albert 138

Sagan, Carl 6, 191

Sahlin, Marshal 234

Salk, Jonas 138

Salon 43

Samuelson, Paul 156

Schiff, Jacob 153

Schlissel, Mark 50

Schor, Juliet 234

Schrödinger’s Ball 29

Schularick, Moritz 47

Secret Life of Real Estate, The 145, 164

Shakespeare, William iii, 24

Shapiro, Robert J. 139

Shaw, George Bernard 157, 212, 232, 235

Shin, Minchul 70

Siegel, Bernie 9

Simon, David 231

Singapore 8, 197, 204, 224, 238, 256

Slate 20, 44, 225

Smith, Adam 197, 219, 239

Smith, Noah 62

Söderberg, Gabriel 52

Spasic, Mat 19

Stanford University 19, 49, 87

State Street 55, 56

Statista 178, 191

Stillman, James 153

Structure of Scientific Revolution 165

Sutton, Willie 140

T

Tax Foundation 44, 73

Tax Policy Blog, The 44

Taylor, Alan 47

Thiel, Peter 169

Think Like a Freak 179

Thoreau, H.D. 175

Thunen, Johann Heinric von 242

Tideman, Nic 112, 250

Tobin, James 23

Tolstoy, Leo 95

Tubbs, Michael 231

Twain, Mark 5, 10, 49, 91, 220, 223

Tyranny of the Bottom Line 131

U

Union Pacific 49

University of California at Berkeley 19

University of Southern California 19

Urban Land Institute 19, 73

V

Vanguard 55, 56

Voltaire 237

W

Wall Street Journal 44, 139

Warburg Bank 153

Warburg, Paul 153

Washington Post 20, 178

Watt, James 126

Weintraub, Elizabeth 30

Wells Fargo 54, 153

White, G. Edward 255

Who Rules America? 179

Wilde, Oscar 157

Williams, John 178

Wired 20

Woodhouse, Kellie 50

World Bank 35, 87, 88, 160, 165, 221, 233

Worstall, Tim 45, 226

Wozniak, Steve 138

Wright, Steven 217

Y

Yglesias, Matthew 44

Z

Zero Hedge 178

Zillow 77, 78, 106, 110, 112, 117, 188, 260

Zuckerberg, Mark 231

Zuckerman, Mortimer 56