Shoup Himself Responds to O’Toole

by David Schaengold on September 1, 2010

Donald Shoup has made a career out of studying the effects of government parking mandates on the way we drive and live. After a bit of a blogospheric kerfluffle about free parking, Shoup responds in detail to one of his most persistent and consistently wrong critics.

{ 4 comments }

1 Will September 1, 2010 at 8:16 am

I’ve been waiting for this. O’Toole really irks me sometimes.

2 David Schaengold September 1, 2010 at 8:21 am

@Will, I think Yglesias has the best pithy take on O’Toole: getting this stuff wrong is literally his job.

3 Matthew Schmitz September 1, 2010 at 12:45 pm

What an excellent, detailed and cutting take down of O’Toole.

Are there any independent scholars anywhere in the planning world that takes O’Toole and his views seriously? If not, how can Cato possibly justify their continuing and embarrassing relationship with this peddler of lazy lies?

4 David Schaengold September 1, 2010 at 12:50 pm

@Matthew Schmitz, Shoup is a much better libertarian than O’Toole. Maybe Cato can just swap the one for the other?

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