People Resent Businesses More In Highly-Regulated Industries - Foundation for Economic Education
People Resent Businesses More In Highly-Regulated Industries Why, for example, rent control leads to renters hating landlords. Tuesday, June 30, 2020 When I came across those words while reading Walter Block’s Defending the Undefendable, I was struck by the power of that under-appreciated insight (not to mention his great introduction to libertarianism opening the book). Block’s primary illustration was the rental housing market, where “the spillover effects of bureaucratic red tape and bungling” are blamed on landlords, rather than on the government policies and procedures that caus...