I'm the first to admit the terrible history of centralised planning, but that is a different question to price controls. America and much of UK/Europe have a l

I'm the first to admit the terrible history of centralised planning, but that is a different question to price controls. America and much of UK/Europe have a long history of successful price controls, eg. rent controls, public transport pricing, monopoly pricing controls (power, utilities, etc), and so on. Read the article. And for those who's reaction is "no no no", you should look into the appalling history of rampant capitalism - explicit or hidden collusion/corruption, resource exhaustion (eg. overfishing), and effects of unmanaged exponential overuse (we make more, it gets cheaper, demand goes up, repeat until crash).