Ariel Diaz
Fwd: Zoning Reform Lessons From the Closing of 16th-Century English Monasteries
This blog takes its name from an important line in Max Weber’s “Politics as a Vocation,” but no Weber library is complete without “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” which argues that the religious beliefs of Calvinists and other Protestants, particularly their emphasis on hard work and discipline, played a key role in shaping the development of market economies.
If remote work leads rich people to become completely indifferent to where they live, then that could make land irrelevant, but I think that would be a very strange outcome. It’s going to lead their residential preferences to be less driven by commuting patterns, but it will still be based on something. And the people earning high pay working in tradeable sectors will continue to be magnets for the majority of people who work in non-tradeable services, so the question of whether the built environment accommodates them will remain central. (View Highlight)