Quote Originally Posted by D.One View Post
I know you're joking on it but,
the constant price in Ookoodook, as far as economic principles are concerned, is artificially constant: someone decided the price was to be that and that decision remained. It's exactly the contrast beetween the constant price at Ookoodook and the rising prices at other places (free of the first decision contraint) that shows the effect of the scarcity on the price of the product.
You're getting into arbitrage, as the rising prices at other places are not being set by the producer by by other consumers.