War necessitates both allocating real resources to defense and certain interest groups being in favor of the government raising resources to wage war. Price controls can be a tool for governments to mobilize additional resources while buying the support of certain key interest groups, hence making war politically viable. France during the revolutionary Terror, the first instance of widespread price controls used in times of war, is used to illustrate this hypothesis. Urban capitalists benefited from price controls on agricultural output combined with forced sales. At the same time, I estimate that in the six months preceding the abolition of price controls, the government saved, by using them (and in real terms), the equivalent of roughly 40% of the annual 1790 central government budget. Consistent with my theory, once the exigencies of the war attenuated and as collective action became more costly for the urban population, price controls were abandoned.

战争既需要为国防分配实际资源，也需要某些利益集团支持政府筹集资源来发动战争。价格控制可以成为政府调动额外资源的工具，同时购买某些关键利益集团的支持，从而使战争在政治上可行。革命恐怖时期的法国是战时广泛使用价格控制的第一个例子，它被用来说明这一假设。城市资本家受益于对农产品的价格控制和强制销售。同时，我估计在取消价格管制之前的六个月里，政府通过使用它们（按实际价值计算）节省了大约相当于 1790 年中央政府年度预算的 40%。与我的理论一致，