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Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home
A Case Against Home Ownership
John Tamny and Jack Ryan
About the book
Jack Ryan and John Tamny challenge the assumption that owning a home is the surest path to wealth. They examine the relationship between housing, mobility and the time people can devote to the work they do best.
The book also considers the costs of residential real-estate transactions and argues for change in the way those transactions are organized. Its subtitle describes the authors’ case against home ownership, rather than a rule for every household.
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