Tag Archives: price controls

I have written extensively over the years on inflation and some of that is here in the blog (see this or this, or this more recently on Volcker the inflation dragon slayer, if you believe in fairy tales; there's way more if you search the blog; I also highly recommend this paper by Perry and Cline in ROKE, which is open, btw). My more recent piece on inflation came out recently in Catalyst, just before the war in Ukraine (on the war see this by Palley, and this old piece by Gary Leupp after...

It’s back to school time, so I’ve been pondering what might be helpful for students. In particular, I’ve becomine sort of obsessed withthe distinctions among “price floors,” “quantity ceilings,” and “price supports,” especially since we’ve seen a few (misguided?) examples of each as of late. So here is what you need to know about price supports in order to ponder their potential reasonableness.