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The tyranny of the market : why you can't always get what you want / Joel Waldfogel.

By: Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.Description: ix, 204 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780674025813 (alk. paper); 0674025814 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Consumers' preferences | Majorities | Supply and demand | Social choice | Free enterpriseDDC classification: 381 Online resources: Table of contents
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.
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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.

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