Students in a course on state government effectiveness propose solutions to everyday issues facing Connecticut.

America has an infrastructure cost problem, but researchers and states can work together to solve it

A new course taught by Professor Zachary Liscow uses Connecticut as a case study for understanding how state government can work more effectively.

Why do US highway projects cost so much? A researcher finds some surprising sources of infrastructure inflation, and points to ways to make road work more affordable.

Why do US highway projects cost so much? A researcher finds some surprising sources of infrastructure inflation, and points to ways to make road work more affordable.

This paper proposes legislative actions to reform environmental policy regulations which made building U.S. infrastructure expensive and slow.

“I'm part of the problem”

Densely Speaking · Episode

# Procurement and Infrastructure Costs (Zach Liscow) [Zach Liscow](https://law.yale.edu/zachary-liscow) is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. From 2022-23, he was the Chief Economist at the White H...

The devil is in the deflator, and most deflators show it has risen since 2019

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