The tyranny of the market why you can't always get what you want /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: 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
  • Government subsidies and insufficient demand
  • Books and liquor: two case studies.