http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/10/22/not-helping-out-due-to-anti-price-gouging-laws/ Commentary on Economics, Information and Human Action Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/10/22/not-helping-out-due-to-anti-price-gouging-laws/#comment-9865 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:44:54 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5712#comment-9865 No evidence. High prices are seen as a universally easy thing to complain about. That price control legislation would continue to keep prices high or supplies low seems meaningless to someone looking for short term political advantage.

]]> http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/10/22/not-helping-out-due-to-anti-price-gouging-laws/#comment-9860 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:57:06 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5712#comment-9860 [...] Not helping out due to anti-price gouging laws « Knowledge Problem [...]

]]> http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/10/22/not-helping-out-due-to-anti-price-gouging-laws/#comment-9856 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:28:58 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5712#comment-9856 I suspect the proponents’ motive is more to show sympathy with gas buyers than to really help them. In that case they’ll change their minds when enough people perceive anti-gouging laws as causing shortages rather than ameliorating them. This is not impossible; if a few of these shortages are conspicuously (e.g. on television) blamed on price-gouging laws, that might be enough.

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