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Alain Marciano - Market Failure in Context - 9780822368335 - V9780822368335
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Market Failure in Context

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Description for Market Failure in Context Hardback. Editor(s): Marciano, Alain; Medema, Steven G. Series: History of Political Economy Annual Supplement. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.

This volume explores the social, political, and intellectual contexts in which twentieth-century notions of market failure were developed. Markets can fail to perform in ways that best promote the larger interests of society: this idea is as old as economics itself and is one of the most crucial issues with which economic thinkers have had to grapple. However, while the history of the theory of market failure has received some critical examination, little attention has been paid to the larger contexts in which these theoretical analyses emerged. Contributors to this volume directly examine these contexts to gain a greater understanding ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
History of Political Economy Annual Supplement
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822368335
SKU
V9780822368335
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About Alain Marciano
Alain Marciano is associate professor of economics at the University of Montpellier and coeditor of A Guide to Posner’s Economic Analysis of Law.  Steven G. Medema is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Denver and the author of The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas.

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