Gouging!

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has really outdone itself with its new series, The Invisible Hand. Episode One takes on price gouging, featuring Mike Munger. As Stephen Gordon is economic advisor for the series, expect more good things to come.

I've had no end of problems in getting the podcasts to stream; Munger's figure out a link that works. Here.

I just about never listen to podcasts; with two under-4s, I don't get the alone-time where it works. But this one was worth making time for.

Previously on price gouging:

• In defence of corner shops' price gouging post quakes.
• Me in the Christchurch Press advocating price gouging after the September earthquakes
• Response to a few critiques of same.
• And to a few more.
• I really wish that they had doubled petrol prices for the few days after the February earthquake.
• Some follow up
• Response to Keith Ng's somewhat intemperate anti-gouging argument.
• Anti-gouging legislation isn't the only binding constraint; reputational effects induce too little gouging.
• If earthquakes are endogenous to the actions of post-quake opportunists, then perhaps we might oppose price-gouging: Japanese Catfish edition.
• Allocating Marmite in a world of scarcity; Keith Ng still worries about social unrest.