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The Founder Kings of Silicon Valley
How does Zuck fully control Meta despite owning only 13.5% of it? Supervoting shares. For decades, stock structure has been treated as corporate law…
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Greg Shill
Procurement and Infrastructure Costs
New podcast interview with Zach Liscow, former OMB Chief Economist and current Yale Law School professor.
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How Much Road Does America Have?
New interview on Densely Speaking explores this understudied topic.
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Street Design Essentialism: Part I
A growing share of street safety activists have talked themselves into a fantasy.
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Beyond Congestion Pricing
I'm elated that it has begun. But it grinds my gears that NYC has ignored so many options for improving transport—including ones that, unlike congestion…
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I've got a bridge to sell you
What do the most important US-Canada crossing, Brooklyn Bridge, and Golden Gate have in common? Deep involvement of the private sector—which might be…
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Updating My Priors on Self-Driving Cars
The tech is really good, which should cause urbanists to update their priors about direct and second-order effects.
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