Talk:Price controls/Archives/2012

Price controls should have its own article

Right now the price controls article redirects to the incomes policy article. That doesn't make sense. Price controls are a big enough topic, with thousands of books and articles on the subject, that it deserves its own article. So I am removing the redirect so price controls can have its own article. Grundle2600 (talk) 11:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

"The downside of Price Controls..."

I have removed the following:

The downside of Price Controls...

Price controls sound appealing, but have no effect on actual production costs. An artificially reduced price spurs increased demand. Since there is no incentive to produce a product or service for less than it actually costs to produce, supply rapidly becomes constrained. In short; Price Controls = "Affordable" and Unavailable.

The article as it stands does not actually say that price controls are good; it merely says what they are and why they are imposed. The addition is a criticism; I have no objection to criticisms so long as there is some citation for them. bd2412 T 03:06, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Validity of re-translation?

I posted a quote from a translation of a remarkably apt quote from Lactantius which, like most such translations that are publicly accessible, is a little old. Someone retranslated this into modern-ish English, leaving the word order unchanged; the meaning is obviously not much altered. To me it seems purer to leave it as the source had it, but I admit non-native speakers may be confused by words like "verily". I'll leave it up you. Wnt (talk) 17:21, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Using common meanings of the words "extortions" (illegal forced payments), "dear" (a term of love), "ordinance" (military weapons), "expose" (uncover), the obsolete translation has become a mistranslation and could not be allowed to remain in the article without retranslating into modern English. If you can find a reliable source for this quote in modern English, then you are welcome to use it. Greensburger (talk) 17:59, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Honestly, I didn't find those terms difficult to understand. At least in the U.S., laws made by cities or towns are still called ordinances; "dear" is known to Beatles fans from When I'm Sixty-Four; and I don't see the use of "extortion" or "expose" as notably different from modern speech. Wnt (talk) 19:46, 13 August 2010 (UTC)