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price and wage controls  

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  • Wage and price controls are government policies designed to restrict the movement of wages and prices to their natural equilibrium market values. In a free market, prices tend toward an equilibrium value that equates the supply of a good or service with its demand. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Price and Wage Controls]

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