Shortages and Surpluses

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Whether a $4 rent ceiling or a $12 minimum wage changes anything comes down to whether the control even bites, a test built into its own slide before either graph gets drawn. A graph-paper extension has students hand-plot the $8 equilibrium and both gaps.

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