Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls

Short excerpts from Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation have been previously published in the following formats:

Robert L. Schuettinger, A Brief Survey of Wage and Price Controls From 2800 B.C. to A.D. 1952 (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 1974).

Robert L. Schuettinger, “Have Controls Ever Worked? The Historical Record: A Survey of Wage and Price Controls Over Fifty Centuries” in The Illusion of Wage and Price Control (Michael Walker, editor) (Vancouver, Canada: The Fraser Institute, 626 Bute Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6E 3M1, Canada, 1976).

Robert L. Schuettinger, “Wage-Price Control, The First 5,000 Years,” in Wage-Price Control: Myth and Reality (Sudha Shenoy, editor) (Turramurra, Australia: The Centre for Independent Studies, P.O. Box 32, Turramurra, 2074, Australia, 1978).

Robert L. Schuettinger, “Four Thousand Years of Wage and Price Controls,” Policy Review, Summer 1978.

Eamonn Butler, “How Government Profits From Inflation,” Policy Review, Fall 1978.

The co-authors wish to thank Mr. Jeff MacNelly (holder of two Pulitzer Prizes) of The Richmond News-Leader and his syndicate, the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, for permission to reprint ten of his cartoons. These cartoons are copyrighted (1978) by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

78–74609

ISBN 0–89195-023–0 (paper back)
ISBN 0–89195-025–7 (hard cover)

Copyright 1979 by Robert L. Schuettinger

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