A Strange Ignorance of the Effect of Price Caps

When a price is capped under its market equilibrium level, what happens? Few people seem to know the answer except for economists. And even some economists do as if they didn’t know, perhaps distracted by their, or their bosses’, ideology. The answer: price caps create shortages, that is, the stuff disappears from the shelves, waiting … Continue reading A Strange Ignorance of the Effect of Price Caps