70 Year Magazine Archive

There’s Gas in Your Future

by Armen Alchian

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The damage done by rations and allocations—their stifling of the efficient distribution of available fuel—can be somewhat reduced if recipients are permitted to sell and transfer them at free market prices. But the sad irony is that proponents of rationing rarely provide for that critical transferability. Why not? Some conjectures are possible.

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