Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home: A Case Against Home Ownership

Get ready to have everything you’ve ever believed about housing and homeownership challenged.

In Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home, authors Jack Ryan and John Tamny make a powerful case that the purchase of a home slows wealth attainment—rendering owners immobile in ways that further restrain their wealth chances—and that the act of homeownership deprives owners of the time and ability to do what they do best, which further dampens individual economic achievement.

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