A little price gouging helps with incentivising forward planning.
A lot of price gouging raises the costs of enforcing property rights (a cost usually socialised by the private owner), and creates risk and fragility for the social structure.
Where to draw the line and how to operationalise the decision is a vexed point.
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2024-07-11 07:16:19
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