It’s been a while since I did one of these, which leaves with plenty of material for your enjoyment. The Land Trap, by Mike Bird, a journalist working for the Economist, is my most recent non-fiction reads—or listen via Audible—and I enjoyed it. Mike’s book puts pen to paper on an idea that has rattled around in my head for a while. If we were to reinvent capitalism today—with our knowledge about the past few hundred years—we would likely treat land and real estate very differently from a financial and economic perspective. More specifically, we wouldn’t allow the speculation, securitisation and ultimately ownership concentration of land and housing that is a core feature of capitalist societies today.
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