Gridlock Nation

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Because Gridlock Nation is a decidedly silly book – certainly for someone of Kwarteng’s apparent intelligence. The best they can do is to point out that ‘demand for using roads clearly isn’t infinite everywhere’, which is nothing more than a truism, and does not confront the reality of ever greater traffic flow on widened or new roads where demand, while not infinite, keeps up with supply. This is all very well, but not everything that is transported vast distances makes economic, let alone environmental, sense. This reluctance to suppress or modify, even slightly, transport consumers’ ‘natural’ choices – which as things stand will tend inevitably towards the private car – coupled with Kwarteng and Dupont’s already described enthusiasm for greater transport distances and provision, will likewise tend inevitably towards a demand for more roads, which in their world would be privately financed. The Great Society Congress under Lyndon Johnson, for example, enacted landmark health care, environment, civil rights, transportation, and education statutes (to name a few).

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A sub-standard road network results in higher business costs and lower productivity, and is potentially a major impediment to economic recovery. Note again the failure to recognize the bicycle as an alternative to a car for these kinds of journeys.

Such questions are particularly acute today, as Democrats and Republicans trade barbs over the do-nothing 106th Congress. China has already constructed a motorway network ten times the size of the UK’s, and the UK has a shorter road length per person than any other major country. Our mission is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of the markets in solving economic and social problems.