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Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-

The tyranny of the market why you can't always get what you want / [electronic resource] : Joel Waldfogel. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. - ix, 204 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.





GBA749251 bnb

Uk


Consumers' preferences.
Majorities.
Supply and demand.
Social choice.
Free enterprise.


Electronic books.

HF5415.32 / .W35 2007eb

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