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Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated
Why Britain has stagnated
The source of the problem In 1947, the Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) was introduced, part of the postwar reform programme that nationalised nearly every major industry, from steel to man-with-van road haulage companies, and normalised top tax rates at over 90 percent. Economists Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga judge that if the whole of New York City allowed the densities that were common in Georgian and Victorian London, rents and house prices would fall towards construction costs, and the metropolitan area would at least double in population, to over 40 million people. We gold plate designs, spending extra billions on features that don’t enhance functionality, as with the award-winning Jubilee Line stations, or the plan for HS2 to run 60 kilometres per hour faster than is typical for European high-speed rail.
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