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Colwell, Peter F. and James B. Kau. “The Economics of Building Codes and Standards,” in M. Bruce Johnson, ed., Resolving the Housing Crisis: Government Policy, Decontrol, and the Public Interest. San Francisco: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, 1982.
Edmonds, Thomas N. and Raymond J. Keating. D.C. by the Numbers: A State of Failure. New York: University Press of America, 1995.
Hayward, Steven. “Legends of the Sprawl,” Policy Review, Sept.–Oct. 1998.
Johnson, M. Bruce, ed., Resolving the Housing Crisis: Government Policy, Decontrol, and the Public Interest. San Francisco: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, 1982:57–80.
Simon, Julian. The Ultimate Resource II. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1996.
Sowell, Thomas. Knowledge and Decisions. New York: Basic Books, 1980.
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo is an adjunct fellow of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis and professor of economics at the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola College in Maryland. This article was originally published by the Center for the Study of American Business, November 1999, as Contemporary Issues Series 97.
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DiLorenzo, T.J. Suburban Legends. Soc 38, 11–18 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-000-1001-6
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