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in economics price controls can be defined as a government enforced maximum or minimum price for essential goods such as bread and housing. Maximum price is a price ceiling and a minimum price enforced by the government is a price floor. A price control is a law passed by the government that dictates the price of a good or service. It can either put a price ceiling (saying the price cannot go above a certain point) or a price floor (saying the price cannot go below a certain point).

An example of a price ceiling is price control of gasoline in the 1970s.

An example of a price floor (albiet not a good one) is the US government's policy in the past to pay farmers not to farm certain crops in an attempt to keep the supply down and the price up.

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Its a system of pricing determined by the government {for food}. :D

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