The tyranny of the market : why you can't always get what you want /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press ,
2007
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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
- Governmen subsidies and insufficient demand
- Books and liquor: two case studies.