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https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/rent-control-2.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/re... The evidence is i

• pydry 2y ago
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  • gruez 2y ago
    >The "evidence" is a link to one paper stuck behind a paywall ??? I got a cloudflare captcha but after that it loads the full paper. Even the pdf download is free. >which is probably trash. Im not in the mood to thrown down money to read trash. In what world is a study that analyzes 206 papers, published across 5 decades "trash", but a n=1 anecdote is somehow not? >He also references the theory that raising the minimum wage increases unemployment, which is very popular among neoliberal economists but has been comprehensively debunked (c.f. dube, lester, reich for the economically literate). see https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-study/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-..., section II.
    • BenFranklin100 2y ago
      > In what world is a study that analyzes 206 papers, published across 5 decades "trash", but a n=1 anecdote is somehow not? In the world of rent control advocates apparently.