The tyranny of the market : why you can't always get what you want /

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Economists have long counseled reliance on markets rather than on government to decide a wide range of questions, in part because allocation through voting can give rise to a "tyranny of the majority." Markets, by contrast, are believed to make products available to suit any individual, re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Consumers' preferences.
Majorities.
Supply and demand.
Social choice.
Free enterprise.
Consommateurs > Préférences.
Majorité (Droit constitutionnel)
Offre et demande.
Choix collectif.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Sales & Selling > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
Consumers' preferences
Free enterprise
Majorities
Social choice
Supply and demand
Angebot
Kollektiventscheidung
Nachfrage
Verbraucher
Markt
Marktmechanisme.
Kosten-effectiviteitsanalyse.
Producentengedrag.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Theory
  • Markets and the tyranny of the majority
  • Are "lumpy" markets a problem?
  • Empirical evidence
  • Who benefits whom in practice
  • Who benefits whom in the neighborhood
  • Preference minorities as citizens and consumers
  • Market solutions and their limits
  • Market enlargement and consumer liberation
  • Fixed costs, product quality, and market size
  • Trade and the tyranny of alien majorities
  • Salvation through new technologies
  • Policy solutions and their limits
  • Government subsidies and insufficient demand
  • Books and liquor: two case studies.

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