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“These people talk of a “middle-of-the-road” policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself—and the people who are asking for government interference—find worse than the conditions they wanted to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.”
— Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow (Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises) by #LudwigvonMises
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