Free markets under siege: cartels, politics, and social welfare
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Main Author: Epstein, Richard Allen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. Hoover Institution Press c2008
Edition:Hoover classics ed
Series:Hoover classics
Hoover Institution Press publication 536
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:"Reissued with a new introduction.". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction to the Hoover classics edition -- Foreword / by Sir Geoffrey Owen -- Brief introduction to the American edition: Back home again -- Modern justifications for classical liberalism -- Between socialism and libertarianism -- Competition and cartels -- Agricultural markets, protectionism, and cartels -- Cartels in labour markets -- Conclusion: The importance of getting the easy cases right -- References -- Commentary / by Geoffrey Wood -- Index
Drawing on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics, Richard Epstein examines how best to regulate the interface between market choice and government intervention—and find a middle way between socialism and libertarianism. He argues the merits of competition over protectionism and reveals the negative results that ensue when political forces displace economic competition with subsidies and barriers to entry. In the process, he provides an illuminating analysis of some of the ways that special interest groups, with the help of sympathetic politicians, have been able to manipulate free markets in their favor
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 99 p.)
ISBN:9780817946135
0817946136
9780817946111
081794611X

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