The Folly of Price Fixing

Posted By Don Boudreaux On April 24, 2009 @ 8:25 am In Great Depression,Prices | Comments Disabled

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[1] Historian Burt Folsom explains how price-fixing helped to further depress America's economy during the 1930s: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past/the-nra-how-price-fixing-perpetuated-the-great-depression/

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