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Roofs or Celings?

Here's a reproduction of the original.

http://fee.org/library/detail/roofs-or-ceilings-the-current-housing-problem

The internal discussions about the publication are wild. The Hammonds
Making Chicago Price Theory has
correspondence between MF / GJS and Orval Watts.

David

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Mason Gaffney <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear Sandra and David,
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>
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> You wrote: Now that natural experiments are widely used for
> identification of econometric models, we’d encourage papers on the history
> of natural experiments. John Snow’s work on cholera and the Milton
> Friedman-George Stigler use the SF earthquake as an exogenous shock to the
> housing market are common knowledge. But those are hundred years apart; is
> there anything in the gap?
>
>
> Please cite the Stigler/Friedman piece on the SF earthquake shock to the
> housing market.  I need to consult it w.r.t. my own research on the subject.
>
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>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Mason Gaffney
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David M. Levy
Professor of Economics
George Mason University
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