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 (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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007000531.html
ER  -