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Assar Lindbeck
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Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck (born 26 January 1930 - August 28, 2020) is a Swedish economics professor and artist.
Quotes
Next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities.
The Political Economy of the New Left : An Outsider's View (1971), p. 39
Variant translation: In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing.
As quoted in “The Rise, Fall and Revival of Swedish Rent Control” by Sven Rydenfelt, in Rent Control : Myths and Realities (1981) edited by Walter Block and Edgar Olsen, pp. 213, 230
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