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last updated: November 28, 2023

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing.
-- Assar Lindbeck

Source : "Rent Control, Myths & Realities: International Evidence of the Effects of Rent Control in Six Countries (The Rise, Fall and Revival of Swedish Rent Control)". Book edited by Milton Friedman,‎ Walter Block, Friedrich A. Von Hayek, Basil Kalymon and‎ Edgar O. Olsen, 1981.

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Source : Gilbert Sorrentino (1973). “Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud”, p.17, New Directions Publishing