Craft and StructureVery hardTwo authors on a policy's effects
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The city's rent cap has failed, economist Dario Fonti argues: since it began, fewer new flats have been built, and landlords have withdrawn properties from the rental market.
Text 2
Fonti is right that supply has fallen. But the cap was never meant to build flats; it was meant to keep existing tenants in their homes, and evictions have fallen by 40%. Whether that is failure depends on which problem you thought the cap was solving.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Fonti's argument?
- A. By conceding his evidence about supply but arguing that he judges the policy by the wrong goal.Correct
- B. By denying that supply has fallen.
- C. By arguing that the cap should be abolished.
- D. By claiming that evictions have risen.
Answer: A. By conceding his evidence about supply but arguing that he judges the policy by the wrong goal.
'Fonti is right … But the cap was never meant to build flats.'
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that supply has fallen.
- Text 2 concedes the supply point.
- C. By arguing that the cap should be abolished.
- Text 2 defends the cap's purpose.
- D. By claiming that evictions have risen.
- Text 2 says evictions fell by 40%.
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