THE FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRIES AND THE SECOND PRICE COMMISSION (1977–1979)
评估1977年重组后的英国价格委员会对食品饮料行业价格控制的影响，基于对受调查公司高管的访谈，为研究价格管制效果提供参考。
This paper is a second one on the subject of price controls in the late 1970s, the previous one being that presented by Ivor Lightman to the April 1978 conference of the Agricultural Economics Society held at the University of Manchester (Lightman, 1978). That paper traced the development of price controls in the UK over the period between 1973 and 1978. Lightman explained how under the terms of the 1977 Price Commission Act the reconstituted Price Commission (PC) had been given the task of appraising notifications of price increases by large companies and of investigating cases in detail at its discretion. The present paper firstly discusses the problems that make it difficult to assess the impact of the reconstituted PC. It then offers an interim assessment of the PC arising from a project based at Loughborough University financed by the Economic and Social Research Council. The project involved a programme of interviews between the two researchers, Dr. M. C. Fleming and myself, and senior management of companies that were the subject of investigation by the PC.