TY - BOOK AU - Waldfogel,Joel ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The tyranny of the market: why you can't always get what you want 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 KW - Electronic books 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3300500 ER -