April 05, 2013
What is a Fair Price for a Kidney?
Libertarians often claim that a just price is whatever people are willing to pay in the absence of force or fraud. So, if sweatshop workers are willing to sell their…
Posts filed under price gouging
November 01, 2012
A Question for the Defenders of Anti-Gouging Laws
If you believe that it is a good thing to pass laws that prevent sellers of water or ice or generators from raising their prices after a natural disaster, are…
October 30, 2012
Price Gouging Roundup
Any time a natural disaster strikes, you don’t have to wait too long for libertarians to start talking about two things: price gouging and broken windows. Since I’ve written a…
May 06, 2011
Libertarianism and the Just Price?
I’ve been listening to Murray Rothbard’s Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, available as a free PDF here or as…