[This article is excerpted from the book Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation, chapter 2: “The Roman Republic and Empire.”] As might be expected, the Roman Republic...
Eamonn F. Butler
Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute. See his website.
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Rent-control laws cause housing shortages.
Here, Butler has written a very competent overview of Mises’s works and thoughts, with a focus on his understanding of the workings of markets (so, for example, there is less focus on theory than we find in The Essential von Mises). Economists shape