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Misallocation, not the aggregate quantity reduction, is the main welfare cost of price controls.

Drawn from what Alex Tabarrok said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

price gouging Whether a price should be allowed to spike in a shortage, and what happens to supply when it is not.

What Alex Tabarrok actually said

  1. Alex Tabarrok Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J
    The quantity reduction is not the main cost of price controls. The misallocation is.

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