yeah, but there's more to the euphemism than there is to the phrase
"price gouging." Henry George took the theory of scarcity rents and
ran with it, advocating a tax on all land. Price gouging seems to be a
totally moral category.

On 3/16/06, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  I thought scarcity rent was the economists' euphemism for charging what the
> traffic will bear, i. e. price gouging.
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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles

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