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Ben Southwood

  • Head of Housing, Transport, and Urban Space, Policy Exchange
  • Founding Editor, Works in Progress
Blackheath
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Eight architecture myths BUSTED by Samuel Hughes

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By Ben Southwood
| bensouthwood.co.uk
I have been thinking about how to get more homes built for well over ten years. In 2013, Sam Bowman hired me to the Adam Smith Institute, kicking off 13 years of ongoing collaboration. He believed that housing market restrictions could be the most important supply-side issue in the United Kingdom, and potentially around the world. He convinced me, and housing became one of our main priorities while we both worked at the ASI. London has not been allowed to expand since 1939. I won’t speak for Sam.
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Losing my religion

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By Ben Southwood
| Works in Progress Verified
When I was 17 years old I became a believer. I thought only in terms of theodicy, apologia, and proselytization. I am talking not about Christianity of course, or any religion, but about libertarianism. I am a natural fanatic. My mind always tells me that if something is true, it must be true to its maximum logical extent. I can sometimes hold in my head the idea that there are golden means: empirical cases where it happens that some arbitrary point upon a line is the optimal value.
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Millenial Liberalism: Ben Southwood

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By Ben Southwood
| Substack
When I was 17 years old I became a believer. I thought only in terms of theodicy, apologia, and proselytisation. I am talking not about Christianity of course, or any religion, but about libertarianism. I am a natural fanatic. My mind always tells me that if something is true, it must be true to its maximum logical extent. I can sometimes hold in my head the idea that there are golden means: empirical cases where it happens that some arbitrary point upon a line is the optimal value.
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