Introduction: The war on prices
Part 1: Inflation: Inflation: An introduction
1. A rising product price doesn't cause inflation
2. There is no such thing as a wage-price spiral
3. Greed and corporate concentration have not caused inflation
4. Our recent inflation wasn't wholly driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the War in Ukraine
5. World War II price controls were not a "total success"
6. Modern monetary theory has no road map for dealing with inflation
Part 2: Prices and Price Controls: Prices and Price Controls: An Introduction
7. Price controls have been disastrous throughout history
8. Under rent controls, everybody pays
9. Oil and natural gas price controls in the 1970s: shortages and redistribution
10. Interest rate caps do not protect vulnerable consumers
11. Abolishing "junk fees" would be junk policy
12. Government price fixing is the rule in U.S. health care
13. Anti-price-gouging laws entrench shortages
14. The west needs water markets, but achieving that is tough
15. Minimum wage hikes bring tradeoffs beyond pay and jobs
16. Minimum wages are an ineffective and inefficient anti-poverty tool
17. Price ceilings of zero can cause deadly shortages
Part 3: Value: Value: an introduction
18. The labour theory of value is mistaken
19. Market prices and wages do not reflect ethical value
20. Market prices are not inherently corrupting
21. The gender pay gap isn't about workplace discrimination
22. The pink tax is a myth
23. High ceo pay is not a simple story of rent seeking
24. Dynamic pricing can benefit consumers
