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Author O'Toole, Randal.

Title The best-laid plans : how government planning harms your quality of life, your pocketbook, and your future / Randal O'Toole.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute ; [Lanham, MD] : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  HC106.83 .O86 2007    Available  ---
Description ix, 416 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-392) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Forest planning -- 1. The case of the fake forests -- 2. Garbage in, gospel out -- 3. A process of natural selection -- 4. Analysis paralysis -- 5. The return of fire dominance -- pt. 2. Why planning fails -- 6. Radical doctrine or rational decisionmaking? -- 7. Human barriers -- 8. Planning is not necessary -- pt. 3. Land-use planning -- 9. Urban renewal -- 10. Turning Portland into L.A. -- 11. How smart is "smart growth"? -- 12. Smart growth as oppression -- 13. Homeownership -- 14. Housing affordability -- 15. Housing bubbles -- 16. It's supply, not demand -- 17. Portland housing -- 18. Smart growth and crime -- 19. Portland planning implodes -- pt. 4. Why planners fail -- 20. The planning profession -- 21. The history of planning -- 22. The ideal communist city -- 23. Urban renewal in the United States -- 24. From radiant city to smart growth -- 25. Typical planning methods --
pt. 5. Transportation planning -- 26. Planning vs. chaos -- 27. The benefits of the automobile -- 28. Costs exaggerated -- 29. The panic over peak oil -- 30. Planning for congestion -- 31. Building auto-hostile streets -- 32. The rail transit hoax -- 33. Transportation myths -- pt. 6. Why government fails -- 34. Power and rationality -- 35. Legislators : seeking reelection -- 36. Special interests : looking for handouts -- 37. Bureaucrats : maximizing budgets -- 38. The executive : distracted by detail -- 39. Courts and voters : the last lines of defense -- pt. 7. Instead of planning -- 40. 246 varieties of cheese -- 41. Make the market work -- 42. Turn open-access resources into property -- 43. Protect public goods with trusts -- 44. Understand government's limits -- 45. Reforming public land management -- 46. Reforming transportation -- 47. Reforming land use -- 48. The American dream -- Notes -- Index.
Subject Central planning -- United States.
Central planning.
United States.
United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009.
Economic policy.
Chronological Term 2001-2009
Subject Capitalism -- United States.
Capitalism.
Added Author Cato Institute.
ISBN 9781933995076 alkaline paper
1933995076 alkaline paper