The UK is lagging behind its friends within the Eurozone. Its per capita GDP trails that of France and Germany, and but its housing and power is scarcer and costlier. A latest essay by Sam Bowman, co-authored with Ben Southwood and Samuel Hughes, argues that Britain has struggled over the previous 15 years as a result of it has “banned the funding in housing, transport and power that it most vitally wants.” Sam Bowman is a founding editor of Works in Progress, has served as director of competitors coverage on the Worldwide Middle for Legislation & Economics and as govt director of the Adam Smith Institute. Right this moment on the present, we ask him if Britain’s failure to launch can be a failure to construct.
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