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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...

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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.
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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.