TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waldfogel,Joel
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The tyranny of the market: why you can't always get what you want 
AV  - HF5415.32 .W35 2007eb
U1  - 381 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Consumers' preferences
KW  - Majorities
KW  - Supply and demand
KW  - Social choice
KW  - Free enterprise
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -