Regulating rent prices is often called "bad economics." But it isn't. The effects of rent control are complex.

Using labor markets as a case study to show how the standard ‘econ 101’ story is misleading at best and flatly contradicted by the evidence at worst.

Economics is a discipline that has been strangled by conservative credentialism. Saving the profession from itself requires more than symbolic action—it’s time to get rid of the gatekeepers.