Demand Quote by David Ricardo

A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.

— Nouriel Roubini

As long as almost no new social housing is built, gross inequality will persist, and class structures will grow ever more constraining.

— Dawn Foster

“In short, rent control reduces the rate of housing turnover.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service the payment…

— Martin Adams

Prices will fall only if the supply of housing grows faster than the demand for residence.

— Jake Auchincloss

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

— Ben Bernanke

A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

— Joseph Stiglitz

No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing…

— Gordon Tullock

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.…

— Adam Smith

In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt.…

— Adam Smith

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the…

— John Stuart Mill

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect…

— James Madison