How Much Bang Do We Get For Our Infrastructure Buck?  | Thu Jun.
13, 2013 6:51 PM GMT  Responding to a CAP report about how to
grow the economy, Josh Barro pushes back on the contention that
we have a serious infrastructure problem. Setting that aside for
the moment, his follow-up comment is worth addressing:   Is this
true? I don't doubt that it costs more to build public
infrastructure in America than it does in, say, China or Mexico.
But is it more expensive than in Spain or Germany or Denmark? If
so, why?  As I said, this is worth addressing. Unfortunately, I
can't find anything very authoritative on this subject. Does
anybody know of anything? Even given the obvious problems of
construction in an already-built environment, the cost of
building infrastructure in America, as well as the time it takes
to complete anything, has always struck me as puzzling. If this
problem really is worse here than it is even in other densely
built, advanced economies, I'd sure like to know why.  UPDATE:
Alon Levy has some r