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Ed Glaeser, in the Wall Street Journal, reviews my GMU colleague Ilya Somin’s new book, The Grasping Hand [4]. (gated) A slice (link added):
Yet in reality, the public power to take private property for almost any purpose remains practically unchanged. In “The Grasping Hand [5],” Ilya Somin argues that “the backlash has yielded far less effective reform than many expected.” Mr. Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, provides a fine tour of the case [Kelo v. City of New London] and of the intellectual history of eminent-domain law. More important, he provides a framework for thinking about the future of eminent domain and private property.
Russ’s latest EconTalk guest is Eric Hanushek [6].
This account is for my conservative friends who are inclined to give the benefit-of-the-doubt to government law-enforcement officers [7]. (HT Methinks)