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The Tyranny of the Market : Why You Can't Always Get What You Want / Joel Waldfogel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674025813
  • 9780674044791
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 381
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THEORY -- PART TWO. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- PART THREE. MARKET SOLUTIONS AND THEIR LIMITS -- PART FOUR. POLICY SOLUTIONS AND THEIR LIMITS -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Credits -- Index
Summary: 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, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not generally correct. In markets, you can't always get what you want. This book explores why this is so and its consequences for consumers with atypical preferences.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674044791

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THEORY -- PART TWO. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- PART THREE. MARKET SOLUTIONS AND THEIR LIMITS -- PART FOUR. POLICY SOLUTIONS AND THEIR LIMITS -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Credits -- Index

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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, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not generally correct. In markets, you can't always get what you want. This book explores why this is so and its consequences for consumers with atypical preferences.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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