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Shortages and Surpluses

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Jordan Avery's three charts have students read the $8 equilibrium price, then measure a $4 rent ceiling's 50-apartment shortage against a $12 wage floor's matching labor surplus, before diagnosing four more price controls and writing a city council memo.

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