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2/5 - Why economic (especially energy) shocks permanently lower fertility rates & total maternal rates (TMR)?
We still feeling the impact of the 70s Oil Crisis and the Great Recession today
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Dave Deek
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1/5 - Are We Measuring Fertility Wrong?
A mathematical decomposition (breaking down) of TFR of 314 million mothers across 33 countries reveals governments worldwide have been treating the…
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Dave Deek
How Much of "Urbanism" is Just Mourning the Death of Functional Small Towns?
The movement has become entangled with exclusiveness and expensive big cities, to its political detriment. But you used to be able to find the basic…
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Stop Fighting Housing Development vs. Flood Control: Houston's Disaster vs. Jersey City's Success
From Chronic Flooding to Development Boom: One Suffered Fragmented Governance, One Integrated Governance, Both Proved YIMBYism Needs State Capacity
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Dave Deek
College Towns, Strong Towns, YIMBY, NIMBY
The global business financialization of student housing illustrates complications between Strong Towns, YIMBYism, and NIMBYism in college towns.
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July 2025

The Rise of Shippable Microfactories
Can microfactories solve prefab's economic problem by inverting the factory model?
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Fed Rate Hikes Drive Up Rent Prices
Federal Reserve interest rate increases designed to cool inflation actually drive up housing rents, potentially undermining the central bank's stated…
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Dave Deek
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Why Does Raising the Retirement Age Hurt Young People? What Would It Take to Start/Restart Their Careers?
Governments worldwide are trying to shore up pension systems by pushing back retirement ages. But cost-saving measures has a lot to do with gutting the…
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Dave Deek
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How Process Charts Kept the Lights On
A guest writer applies 1940s management to his day job
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Two 'Failed' Cities (Detroit & Baltimore) Built Local State Capacity To Bring Crime to New Lows
From The Wire to 50-Year Lows: One Used An Economics Focus, One Used Public Health Focus, Both Proved the Experts Wrong
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Dave Deek
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The Brand of LA, California, USA From East Asian Megacities
We look chaotic from the calm of East Asian megacities, a concern for both tourism and higher ed sectors in the US.
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Clearing Up the Free-Bus Debate
The provision of a government service, such as buses, and how to fund it, are fundamentally two different questions.
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