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June 27, 2008
hoover digest » 2008 no. 3 » latin america

What Price Ignorance?

by Thomas Sowell

Hugo Chávez of Venezuela seems surprised that price controls don’t work. They never do. By Thomas Sowell.

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Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.

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