Introduction: The War on Prices, by Ryan Bourne PART 1: INFLATION Inflation: An Introduction, by Ryan Bourne 1. A Rising Product Price Doesn't Cause Inflation, by Pierre Lemieux 2. There Is No Such Thing as a Wage-Price Spiral, by Bryan P. Cutsinger 3. Greed and Corporate Concentration Have Not Caused Inflation, by Brian C. Albrecht 4. Our Recent Inflation Wasn't Wholly Driven by the COVID-19 Pandemic and the War in Ukraine, by David Beckworth 5. World War II Price Controls Were Not a "Total Success", by Ryan Bourne 6.
Modern Monetary Theory Has No Road Map for Dealing with Inflation, by Stan Veuger PART 2: PRICES AND PRICE CONTROLS Prices and Price Controls: An Introduction, by Ryan Bourne 7. Price Controls Have Been Disastrous throughout History, by Eamonn Butler 8. Under Rent Controls, Everyone Pays, by Jeffrey Miron and Pedro Aldighieri 9. Oil and Natural Gas Price Controls in the 1970s: Shortages and Redistribution, by Peter Van Doren 10. Interest Rate Caps Do Not Protect Vulnerable Consumers, by Nicholas Anthony 11. Abolishing "Junk Fees" Would Be Junk Policy, by Ryan Bourne 12. Government Price Fixing Is the Rule in U.S.
Health Care, by Michael F. Cannon 13. Anti-Price-Gouging Laws Entrench Shortages, by Ryan Bourne 14. The West Needs Water Markets, but Achieving That Is Tough, by Peter Van Doren 15. Minimum Wage Hikes Bring Tradeoffs beyond Pay and Jobs, by Jeffrey Clemens 16. Minimum Wages Are an Ineffective and Inefficient Anti-Poverty Tool, by Joseph J. Sabia 17. Price Ceilings of Zero Can Cause Deadly Shortages, by Peter Jaworski PART 3: VALUE Value: An Introduction, by Ryan Bourne 18.
The Labor Theory of Value Is Mistaken, by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 19. Market Prices and Wages Do Not Reflect Ethical Value, by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 20. Market Prices Are Not Inherently Corrupting, by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 21. The Gender Pay Gap Isn't about Workplace Discrimination, by Vanessa Brown Calder 22. The Pink Tax Is a Myth, by Ryan Bourne 23. High CEO Pay Is Not a Simple Story of Rent Seeking, by Alex Edmans and J. R. Shackleton 24.
Dynamic Pricing Can Benefit Consumers, by Liya Palagashvili Notes Index.