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This is not merely a matter of etiquette, manners, or personalities. In the tone of a debate, issues of professional authority are at stake. If the personal is political, so too is the tone of a debate.

One could make a strong case for more stringent controls throughout the American health-care system. And price controls are themselves just one of many unorthodox approaches to inflation management. Reducing the monopoly power of price-gouging firms, channeling credit to sectors where demand outstrips supply, forcing (or strongly encouraging) workers to save a fraction of their paychecks, and direct public investment in expanded production are others.

All of these measures have the potential for negative side effects and unintended consequences. But the same can be said of raising interest rates. If policymakers reflexively presume the wisdom of conventional tools, and dismiss the potential of unorthodox ones, we will all pay the price.

If one takes this approach, the question becomes which instruments might usefully address which drivers of which price increases. It is not obvious to me that either interest rate hikes or price controls in general can be of much help.

Cleaving to team transitory does not imply complacency. It just implies that faced with a range of bad options we should practice restraint in adopting any anti-inflationary policy, whether that involves monetary policy, regulatory policy or fiscal policy.

One of more striking set of data to appear of late are the quarterly numbers for fiscal impact produced by Brookings. For all the talk of Biden stimulus, the fiscal impulse went into negative territory in Q2 2021. Even on a four-quarter moving average basis it is now on the border of negative territory.

On drug prices, a large majority of Americans seem to favor robust drug price negotiations. But when the issue of price control is raised, at least one yougov poll (take it or leave it) shows little enthusiasm (and yes I am aware of the website this is published on).

Nor is development all in one direction. It is far from obvious that the US government machine today would be able to mobilize the competence and resources necessary to supervise prices on a large scale. Recent experience with the provision of basic services like COVID testing hardly suggests as much. Rebuilding administrative competence may in fact be part of the underlying project of market supervision and price control. But in that case it is a long-haul strategy.

No single historical episode is a perfect template for current events. But when looking for historical parallels, it is useful to concentrate on inflationary episodes that contained supply chain disruptions and a spike in consumer demand after a period of temporary suppression. The inflationary period after World War II is likely a better comparison for the current economic situation than the 1970s and suggests that inflation could quickly decline once supply chains are fully online and pent-up demand levels off.

I am all for a creative historical reimagining of the 1970s. Releasing us from the nightmare memories of that period would do a great service to the political imagination. But price controls seem a particularly unpromising territory, particularly given the area of price inflation that mattered most, then and now i.e. energy.

The Biden administration has little to gain and much to lose by dramatizing the situation. By all means, go for the easy wins. So long as they do not deflect from strategic objectives like decarbonization. Pick off the profiteers. Use the tools that are available. But let us not confuse our situation today with that facing the United States after World War II. We are far removed from that epoch, both from its dangers and its possibilities. We have our own problems to face, let us address them on their own terms rather than rummaging in the locker of the mid twentieth century.

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An interesting analisis of price controls to manage inflation would be incomplete without studying Argentina and its futile efforts, currently underway, to impact inflation thru price controls on over 1,300 food items. An utter failure, both on the inflation front and enforcement. As to the healthcare industry in the States, the lack of transparency between pricing and the insurance coverage , doctors and pharmacies is astounding in a sector which commands almost 19% of GDP.

I feel like I need to expose myself more to the inflation hawks' arguments, because "temporary and sectoral" seems so thuddingly obvious to me. As far as I can tell it's only a minority of pundits and academics worried about persistent inflation, the markets and policy makers seem to be ready to make minor adjustments and move on as supply issues are overcome.

Under this sensationalist headline, the Guardian, published an explosive op-ed by Isabella Weber. After a week of furious controversy, the headline was revised. \u201CCould strategic price controls help fight inflation?\u201D it now asked.

The substance of the argument remained unchanged. On the basis of positions taken by prominent American economists in 1946, Weber suggested that \u201Cstrategic price controls\u201D might be a means to contain the surge in profits and prices that is causing such anxiety in the United States in recent months.

When it comes to the politics of intellectual life, I\u2019m committed to showing not telling. Chartbook is part of that effort. But given the importance of the subject matter and since my name was invoked in one widely quoted thread, forgive me for making an exception in this case.

In this kind of debate there should be no room for disrespect. Full stop. However wrong and ill-judged you may feel Weber\u2019s op-ed to be, there should be no room for disrespect. It was good to see Paul Krugman apologizing. But the harm was done.

Regrettably, the aggression triggered by Weber\u2019s op-ed is also profoundly unproductive in intellectual terms. It turned what should be a serious argument about an important issue - the means of inflation-control - into an ugly slanging match. This is not by accident. One way to shut down an unwelcome discussion is by means of fist-pounding. Another is the tantrum. In either case, the unproductiveness of the ensuing conversation is not a bug. It\u2019s a feature.

If you are serious about engaging in the argument, don\u2019t focus on Weber\u2019s 800 word squib, read it in light of her important historical work on price control politics in the West and China after 1945, which poses its own questions. And acknowledge the fact that her suggestion is not without context. It reflects a rich vein of recent post-Keynesian writing that has urged \u201Cunconventional\u201D approaches to inflation control.

As Eric Levitz makes clear in his excellent write-up of the debate, whether you find Weber\u2019s op-ed convincing or not, there is a serious position to be argued with. The effort to assert the monopoly of conventional inflation-fighting disarms us.

For post-Keynesian proposals on how regulations and price controls of various types might assist in managing America\u2019s current inflation problems, check out the position of Josh Mason and Lauren Melodia at the Roosevelt Institute.

For my part, I\u2019m a paid-up member of team transitory, a diagnosis Weber mentions but does not seriously address. In fact, I am not just part of team transitory. I am a member of team sectoral, as well. To put a point on it, I am not convinced that the current round of price increases should really be thought of as a general inflation at all. I am impressed by recent BIS work which shows the common factor in recent price movements declining in significance. And if that is true for data up to 2019, it is all the more the case for the period since the COVID shock. Matt Klein\u2019s breakdown of the data into COVID and non-COVID elements is highly persuasive on this score.

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