12 Facts About Price controls

Price controls are restrictions set in place and enforced by governments, on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market.

Historically, price controls have often been imposed as part of a larger incomes policy package employing wage controls and other regulatory elements.

Price controls have been used in modern times in less-planned economies, such as rent control.

Price controls were imposed in the US and Nazi Germany during World War II.

Wage Price controls have been tried in many countries to reduce inflation, seldom successfully.

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The first time price controls were enacted nationally was in 1906 as a part of the Hepburn Act.

Price controls floor is a government- or group-imposed price control or limit on how low a price can be charged for a product, good, commodity, or service.

Price controls ceiling is a price control, or limit, on how high a price is charged for a product, commodity, or service.

Primary criticism leveled against the price ceiling type of price controls is that by keeping prices artificially low, demand is increased to the point where supply cannot keep up, leading to shortages in the price-controlled product.

Furthermore, once controls are removed, prices will immediately increase, which can temporarily shock the economic system.

The rationing and price controls enforced in many countries during World War II encouraged widespread black market activity.

Price controls fail to achieve their proximate aim, which is to reduce prices paid by retail consumers, but such controls do manage to reduce supply.