The tyranny of the market :
Waldfogel, Joel
The tyranny of the market : Why you can't always get what you want / by 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 (hbk.) : Rs.2,248.00 0674025814 (hbk.)
Consumers' preferences
Majorities
Supply and demand
Social choice
Free enterprise
381 / WAL
The tyranny of the market : Why you can't always get what you want / by 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 (hbk.) : Rs.2,248.00 0674025814 (hbk.)
Consumers' preferences
Majorities
Supply and demand
Social choice
Free enterprise
381 / WAL