Price-Gouging Bans Don’t Make Things Cheaper, They Make Them More Scarce




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Summary: Imposing “price gouging” bans after a natural disaster doesn’t actually help anybody. On paper, it looks ideal. But the reality is that price-gouging laws don’t make things better. In the end, it doesn’t matter how low the price of your wares are if you can’t actually buy it. Join James Harrigan and Antony Davies as they delve into this topic and more on this week’s episode of Words and Numbers.