Dr. Ken Small’s New Study About the Private Provision of Roads

State and Local Government | December 2, 2008

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 minute

Dr. Kenneth Small of the University of California at Irvine has just published a study for the Show-Me Institute about the economics of the private provision of highways. It is a great paper, somewhat more national in focus than much of our work, but applying well to Missouri. The Saint Louis Beacon has graciously decided to host the op-ed I wrote to accompany Dr. Small’s paper, for which we thank them.

I strongly encourage everyone with an interest in transportation and economics to carefully read Dr. Small’s work.

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.

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