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University of Notre Dame. Land and politics. Cattle and capitalism too. Hopefully another thing soon.

South Bend, IN
Joined January 2009
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Publication day for my new book, Property Values! Get it, read it, buy it for friends, sleep with it under your pillow, etc. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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This is 100% getting discussed in Red Meat Republic 2
They're going to study this ad for centuries
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If you can, join us tomorrow.
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Trying to make the sunglasses emoji a thing in my professional emails but it isn't working 😎
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too smug coded apparently 🫠
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we're putting ms rachel on the $100 bill
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Going to bed with full confidence in the needle
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I don't really know my Kantorowicz but this is it right?
"But as you all know, Prevost graduated from Villanova. So the Pope doesnt take sides. Prevost has another opinion but we wont do that now" goodness. His sense of humor 🀣🀣🀣
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🚨New Episode🚨@samuelmoyn and I talk with Diego Zambrano about his excellent new book, How Americans Enforce The Law, about when and why private lawsuits are used to enforce statutory rules. Download it while it’s hot!
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Yes, I’m a gamer.
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Looking forward to immediately eating three-quarters of my kids' Halloween candy after they go to bed.
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My son is an angler fish. Not bad! My daughter is Elmo. Ok it's been done, but she's making it work.
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Also given that Glaeser is such a city guy, and my book gives cities kind of short shrift, I feel like maybe I got away with something.
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One time a student told me the thing they liked most about my teaching style was how I "play dumb" as if I don't understand the text and let them figure it out. And all I was thinking at the time was: what are they talking about, I never play dumb
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sure, a writer in 1955 could sell a short story for ten grand. but if he wanted to look at his phone he was completely fucked
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Annals of Anti-Monopoly. My students fear addiction: sports gambling, social media . And what about the opioid crisis? Historical analogies? Link below. Home Protection: Frances Willard’s Anti-Monopoly Crusade | Business History Review | Cambridge Core - cup.org/4ibIjfo
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Turns out the midterms being bad for the president's party is a realllly long term trend. I just assumed it was a recent phenomenon.
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An aside in a 1906 biography of John Sherman by Theodore Burton.
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I'm excited about this talk at @ConnCollege on Thursday night, as part of their amazing symposium on a right to housing. For anyone local, please roll through! For anyone else, the event will be livestreamed, registration link here: welivehere.site/event/housin….
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