A higher number indicates a larger gap, with the youth being significantly unhappier than their older counterparts. These countries include the United States, Canada, and others, where young adults struggle with unique stresses such as feeling priced out of owning a home, a once-key metric of success. Interestingly… the report challenges the conventional wisdom that young adults (those below 30) are typically the happiest demographic.
In fact, happiness tends to decrease through middle age and increase around 60, “but these countries have digressed from this pattern,” “with older generations being much happier than young adults.” The report highlights several potential factors contributing to the unhappiness of young adults… including high youth unemployment rates and the need to seek opportunities abroad.
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Compendium of Bryan Caplan's Guest-blogging Posts on His New Book "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics…
Bryan Caplan’s guest-blogging stint has come to an end. We thank Bryan for his excellent contributions to the blog!
Here is a listing of his posts about his book Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation . I myself also wrote a post introducing Bryan and the book .
I think my forthcoming Texas Law Review article, ” The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning ” (coauthored with Josh Braver), in some ways serves as a complement to Bryan’s book. In the book, Bryan suggests that judicial review is “probably the best shot [at] radical housing deregulation,” but doesn’t elaborate further. Braver and I explain how such judicial intervention can happen, and why it should be done.
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Reason Magazine – Free Minds and Free Markets
Eric Levitz argues that the left should take a stand against censorship—for practical rather than principled reasons.
Economist and author Phil Magness debunks a recent New York Times piece and shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes.
The legislation is largely a status quo bill that doesn’t take up longstanding calls to reform air traffic control, airport funding, and more.
Price controls lead to the misallocation of resources, shortages, diminished product quality, and black markets.
Federal officials say EcoHealth Alliance failed to properly report on its gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and to monitor safety conditions there.
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*Build, Baby, Build*: My Most Inexcusable Omission
Every author has to make choices. What’s worth including? What isn’t? When I finally read the published version of my newBuild, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation , I was proud of my choices. False modesty aside, the book — a non-fiction graphic novel — looks great, and manages to cover almost every important angle.
What makes this omission so inexcusable? Because I’ve known for many years that the share of land owned by U.S. federal and state governments is shockingly high. I just forgot about the issue until it was too late to alter the book.
I’m not crazy. I know that full privatization of government land is highly unlikely to happen. If even 1% were privatized over the next decade, I’d be amazed. My point is privatization is a massive missed opportunity. And sinceBuild, Baby, Build is all about massive missed opportunities, I really wish I’d included it. If I ever publish an expanded second edition, I definitely will.
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