March 14, 2020
The Ethics of Price Gouging
Is it wrong to stock up on hand sanitizer, and try to sell it at a profit? Would it be wrong for stores to increase the price of toilet paper…
Posts filed under price gouging
September 13, 2018
The Single-Entry Moral Bookkeeping of Ethical Opposition to “Price Gouging”
Having spent a lot of time explaining why we should allow prices to move freely during emergencies, I have found that people sympathetic to “anti-gouging” laws will sometimes concede the…
September 12, 2017
Two Short Points in Defense of Price Gouging
Over at the New York Times, Andrew Sorkin has a rather incredulous piece on hurricane price gouging. The piece mentions some of my work on the topic, as well as…
November 21, 2013
Two Cato Podcasts
I recently recorded two podcasts with the Cato Institute in which BHL readers might be interested. The first is an hour long discussion on Libertarians and the Poor with Aaron…
October 21, 2013
World Cup “Price Gouging”?
Following up on my post on price gouging and the poor, here’s a link to a story on Marketplace dealing with “price gouging” in Brazil. Except it’s not about ice…
October 19, 2013
Price Gouging and the Poor
Suppose a hurricane hits your town and knocks out power. No power means no refrigeration, and no refrigeration means no ice. Of course, there’s still some ice left from before the storm,…