The tyranny of the market : why you can't always get what you want /
Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-
The tyranny of the market : why you can't always get what you want / Joel Waldfogel. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. - ix, 204 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
9780674025813 (alk. paper) 0674025814 (alk. paper)
2007000531
GBA749251 bnb
013778654 Uk
Consumers' preferences.
Majorities.
Supply and demand.
Social choice.
Free enterprise.
HF5415.32 / .W35 2007
381
The tyranny of the market : why you can't always get what you want / Joel Waldfogel. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. - ix, 204 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
9780674025813 (alk. paper) 0674025814 (alk. paper)
2007000531
GBA749251 bnb
013778654 Uk
Consumers' preferences.
Majorities.
Supply and demand.
Social choice.
Free enterprise.
HF5415.32 / .W35 2007
381