Routledge Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition
The method used by a market or administrators to fix a price.
Increasingly many economists have noted that some important prices are not determined in the market by demand and supply but by herd instinct, social contract, negotiation, domination, politics, power and speculation: major examples of non-market-determined prices are oil prices, the wage rate and the rate of interest.
See also: administered pricing
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