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Common-law legal systems are what make infrastructure construction costs high

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infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

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  1. Alon Levy Mathematician turned transport researcher

    The theory that common law leads to higher costs, based on high costs across the US, Singapore, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, and Bangladesh. I no longer believe this theory holds up

    in the developed world, important edge cases disagree with the theory, including Quebec (expensive) and Israel (about average)

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