Les Echos – Fight against the coronavirus: the demagogic temptation
Opinion column, by Maxime de Guillenchmidt published in Les Echos of February 11th on the regulation of the prices of hydroalcoholic gels and the consequences of these measures in terms of freedoms, in particular those of entrepreneurship and commerce and industry…
“The government has decided on several occasions to cap the price of hydroalcoholic gels. A measure which aims to avoid artificial price increases for products that have become essential. If the measure is popular, it remains dangerous, because it contravenes a fundamental economic freedom”
