The tyranny of the market : why you can't always get what you want / / Joel Waldfogel.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 204 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.