Price Control

• How $40-a-Pack Cigarettes Pushed Australians to the Black Market By Victoria Kim, The New York Times, Feb. 15, 2026
• Rent Controlled vs. Rent Stabilized: Here’s How the Rates Work. By Jill Terreri Ramos, The New York Times, January 17, 2026
• Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), December 20, 2025
• Economists Hate This Idea. It Could Be a Way Out of the Affordability Crisis. By Neale Mahoney and Bharat Ramamurti, The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2025
• Going Once, Going Twice: 165,000 Tons of Rice By Kiuko Notoya and Yan Zhuang, The New York Times, March 14, 2025
• Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work Freakonomics Radio, YouTube, July 29, 2024
  
• A New ‘Holy Grail’ in the Housing Crisis: Statewide Rent Caps By David W. Chen, The New York Times, February 23, 2024
  
• Don’t Hate the Influencer Who Loves Her Big, Cheap Apartment. Wouldn’t You? By Victoria M. Walker, The New York Times, August 30, 2023
  
• American cities want rent control to rein in housing costs The Economist, August 25, 2022 
• With Inflation High, People Are Talking About Price Controls. Is That a Terrible Idea? By Peter Coy, The New York Times,  Feb. 23, 2022
• Ireland Puts Minimum Price on Alcohol to Curb Binge Drinking By Isabella Kwai, The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2022 [The new rule, part of broader legislation aimed at stemming alcohol-related illnesses, sets a minimum price of one euro per standard drink and came into effect on Tuesday.] 
• What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control? By Rebecca Diamond, Brookings, October 18, 2018