administered price

noun

a price that is determined administratively rather than by changes in supply and demand.

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One big reason they are so high, believe Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, is the "administered price," which largely ignores demand in deference to industry's effort to improve profits.