"While you may put whatever prices you wish on the goods and services you provide, those prices will become economic realities only if others are willing to pay them, and that depends not on whatever prices you have chosen, but on how much consumers want what you offer, and on what other producers charge for the same goods and services."

So, maybe the 6th edition could be better equipped for ctrl+f economists, with all the communist propaganda words indexed to subsections.

If you want to know where bubbles came from, you should have just asked, its called monetary policy and is set by the federal reserve; sure, there was the great tulip mania of - no one gives a fuck it was a short lived commodity bubble that would look miniscule accounting for any amount of inflation you are willing to admit; today, the "bubble" is called debt, the purchasing power of your dollar must decrease, because the very existence of dollars necessarily implies there is a corresponding debt with interest, it turns out to that a pretty significant amount of the money being printed is being injected intravenously into the housing sector unlike the median wage, and you guys are always mystified that housing costs so much money, incentives matter.

If you want to regard this in a moral context, name your world religion and I will agree this second to obey their economic practices. There are many immoral philosphical ideas regarding economics that many regard as moral; religion is no exception, but I find that conceptually grounded in principles that have worked for thousands of years to keep people ethically bound despite ethnic differences and geographical seperation. There is far less to fear from islamic lending practices than whatever people "feel is right" in the heat of the moment.

Price fixing in the market doesnt work, because rival landlords cant call the government to airstrike their competitors when they get undercut.