TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waldfogel,Joel
TI  - The tyranny of the market: why you can't always get what you want 
SN  - 9780674025813 (alk. paper)
AV  - HF5415.32 .W35 2007
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
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Markets and the Tyranny of the Majority --; 2; Are "Lumpy" Markets a Problem? --; 3; Who Benefits Whom in Practice --; 4; Who Benefits Whom in the Neighborhood --; 5; Preference Minorities as Citizens and Consumers --; 6; Market Enlargement and Consumer Liberation --; 7; Fixed Costs, Product Quality, and Market Size --; 8; Trade and the Tyranny of Alien Majorities --; 9; Salvation through New Technologies --; 10; Government Subsidies and Insufficient Demand --; 11; Books and Liquor: Two Case Studies
N2  - "Economists have long counseled reliance on markets rather than on government to decide a wide range of questions, in part because allocation through voting can give rise to a "tyranny of the majority." Markets, by contrast, are believed to make products available to suit any individual, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not generally correct. In markets, you can't always get what you want. This book explores why this is so and the consequences for consumers with atypical preferences."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -