In a world increasingly tangled in regulatory red tape and bureaucratic inertia, many across the country have stood up to address the issue of housing shortages and affordability.

The “Yes in My Back Yard” (YIMBY) movement is gaining momentum across the country, and Bryan Caplan’s new book Build, Baby, Build captures its essence.

Listen as Veronique de Rugy and Caplan discuss.

Bryan Caplan is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. Caplan is also the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times.