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A spoonful of economics helps land use bias go down

Initiative Matters: There is an astonishing omission of costing the potential restrictions on urban expansion.

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow proclaimed  in 1966.

The concept refers to the cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. In the public sphere, the concept is known as regulatory capture –

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Roger Partridge Sun, 29 Sep 2019
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