rent control

Davidson on rent control as “perverse”

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A good journalistic piece in The New York Times: “The Perverse Effects of Rent Regulation.” (Thanks to R.M. for the link.) Rent control is a classic case of bad economics and bad ethics. The bad economics is ignorance of unintended consequences — in this case a price control that makes the initial problem worse. The […]

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Rent control [Business Ethics Cases series]

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My video lecture, part of the Business Ethics Cases series. Contents: 1. Introduction: the standard buyer/seller relationship. 2. The argument for rent control. 3. The argument against rent control. 4. Comparing the arguments for and against rent control. 5. Rent control: politics. The entire video (55 minutes total): Supplements: * Summary flowchart of the arguments

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