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Where is a better article? The cost of infrastructure is extremely complicated. People who are experts in construction financing are busy making good money rather than writing articles or donating time to journalists. (and construction/construction finance experts are usually only experts in a specific subfield)

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/why-we-cant-figure-ou...

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https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

This is a pretty good article, along with his response to comments:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/17/highlights-from-the-co...

That is a good article for explaining why costs have gone up in most countries, like they have in France and Spain.

It's less good at explaining the vast outlier (larger outlier on cost than gdp) that is US construction costs.

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