Political Scientist. Main focus on the politics of housing with a particular interest in Post-war Britain.

Britains Forgotten Financial Crisis

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Britain’s Forgotten Financial Crisis is the publicised version of my undergraduate dissertation. It tells the previously forgotten story of the period of Britains most significant real house price inflation in the early 1970s. However unlike previous accounts it goes further by arguing that there was no house price bubble during this period. Instead the “boom” was a price correction after a period of brutal financial repression which had coincided with aggressive tax cuts for housing coupled with tight planning restrictions.

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Escape to the Country

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Escape to the Country is a Works in Progress piece I wrote detailing the history of New Towns, a heavily mythologised area of post-war British planning. This attempts to clarify the politics and ideology behind them and why some succeeded or failed

What did Henry George Think About Cities

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Henry Georges modern day adherents present him as the heir to Adam Smith and David Ricardo. However his goals and ideas were far more similar to the utopian socialists of Charles Fourier and Robert Owen who dreamed of a world free from urban externalities and rents.What did Henry George Think About Cities? investigates and covers this forgotten tradition that ultimately became the bedrock of British planning.

The Corn Laws and Modern Planning

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The Corn Laws and Modern Planning is a short piece on what classical economists, primarily David Ricardo, meant when they were talking about rent in the 19th century and how these 19th century essays on (mainly) farming should interpreted in a modern setting.