Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893) was a famous English lexicographer. He taught at University College specializing in classical studies. In 1842 he wrote A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Smith wrote several books on Greek and Latin for students. A Smaller history of Greece: From the earliest times to the Roman conquest includes Geography of Greece, Origin of the Greeks, and the Heroic Age, General Survey of the Greek People. National Institutions, Early History of Peloponnesus and Sparta to the end of the Messenian Wars, B.C. 668, Early History of Athens down to the...

Introduction by Michael Ledger-Lomas, King's College, University of London

Rent control, the governmental regulation of the level of payment and tenure rights for rental housing, occupies a small but unique niche within the broad domain of public regulation of markets. The price of housing cannot be regulated by establishing a single price for a given level of quality, as other commodities such as electricity and sugar have been regulated at various times. Rent regulation requires that a price level be established for each individual housing unit, which in turn implies a level of complexity in structure and oversight that is unequaled.Housing provides a sense of...