Toilet paper producers haven't stopped making it. But anti-gouging laws in many places have ensured that prices can't rise to ensure that your neighbor doesn't buy three hundred rolls at the regular price while others in greater need can't find any at all.
Sandra Klein
Sandy Klein is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business and a Fellow of the Mises Institute. She holds a PhD in economics from Auburn University, where she was a Mises Institute Research Fellow, and has taught at Auburn, the University of Georgia, the University of Missouri, and the Copenhagen Business School. Her work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, the Journal of Management Studies, Applied Economics Letters, and other outlets.
