The tyranny of the market : why you can't always get what you want /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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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.