(Following
is the transcript of the segment “Analysis by Winnie Monsod” which
aired on News on Q on October 13, 2009. Prof. Winnie Monsod is the
resident analyst of New on Q which airs weeknights at 9:30 p.m. on Q
Channel 11.)
A book entitled “40 Centuries of Wage and Price Controls” traces price
control attempts from as far back as to the Old Testament of the Bible,
to the Code of Hammurabi, to the Roman Republic and Empire, to medieval
Europe, to the first centuries of the USA and Canada, to the French
Revolution, the 19th century, world wars I and II, the Nazis, the
Soviets, including rent controls in the US in the 1970s under Nixon and
Carter.
The Philippines is no exception.
Republic Act 4164, which was pas
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Date: 10.18.2009
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