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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comTHE REAL ROOT OF EVIL 117was moving away from a position he characterized as “thoroughlyKeynesian” to his later libertarianism. Friedman had long opposed rentcontrol for its inefficiencies. He and Stigler argued that by interferingwith the free working of the market, rent control removed incentivesto create more housing stock, improve existing units, or share housing.Therefore it created, rather than alleviated, the housing shortage. Theydid not question the underlying motivation for rent control, even identifyingthemselves as people “who would like even more equality thanthere is at present.” 44 The problem with rent control was simply that itdid not achieve its stated policy objectives.This dispassionate tone infuriated Rand, who saw Roofs or Ceilings?through the lenses of her experience in Communist Russia. Friedmanand Stigler’s use of the word “rationing” particularly disturbed her. Shedid not know such usage was standard in economics, instead flashingback to her days of near starvation in Petrograd. “Do you really thinkthat calling the free pricing system a ‘rationing’ system is merely confusingand innocuous?” she asked in an angry letter to Mullendore, a FEEtrustee. She believed the authors were trying to make the word “respectable”and thus convince Americans to accept permanent and total rationing.Focusing entirely on the hidden implications of the pamphlet, Randsaw the authors’ overt argument against rent control as “mere windowdressing, weak, ineffectual, inconclusive and unconvincing.”Rand believed that Friedman and Stigler were insincere in their argumentagainst rent control because they failed to invoke any moral principlesto support their case. And when they did mention morality, itwas to speak favorably of equality and humanitarianism. She fumed toMullendore, “Not one word about the inalienable right of landlords andproperty owners . . . not one word about any kind of principles. Just expediency. . . and humanitarian . . . concern for those who can find no houses.” 45In addition to her eight-page letter to Mullendore, replete with exclamationpoints and capitalized sentences, Rand sent a short note to Read. Shecalled the pamphlet “the most pernicious thing ever issued by an avowedlyconservative organization” and told him she could have no further connectionwith FEE. To Rose Wilder Lane she described the incident as “a crushingdisappointment,” adding, “It is awfully hard to see a last hope go.” 46The irony was that Read too disliked the pamphlet. Prior to publicationhe and the authors had tussled over several passages. The authors’