4. Price Controls
Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course · Mises Institute
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Price controls — triangular interventions — occur when an intervener (generally government) either compels a pair of people to make an exchange or prohibits them from making an exchange. Although ludicrous, price controls are instituted because a product appears to be in short supply, e.g. oil — while price controls create artificial shortages of the product. The conservation movement ties in with the attack on comfort and consumption and humans in general.
Lecture 4 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.