Gaining Ground: Markets Helping Government

ISBN-13: 9780815739326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 306 str.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Perspectives on Government and Markets and the Scope and Content of the Analysis
• Part I: Markets Helping Government Address Economic Goals
• 3. Why Markets Can Help Government Address Economic Goals
• 4. Protecting Consumers against Anticompetitive Behavior
• 5. Protecting Consumers When Technology Appears to Prevent Price Competition
• 6. Enabling Individuals to Make More-Informed Decisions
• 7. Addressing Negative Externalities Efficiently
• 8. Improving Public Production
• 9. Encouraging Innovations by Firms and Individuals
• Part II: How Markets Can Help Government Accomplish Social Goals
• 10. Why Markets Could Help Government Achieve Social Goals
• 11. Reducing Poverty
• 12. Fairness in Labor Markets
• 13. Merit Goods
• 14. Expanding the Role of Markets to Help Address Social Goals Policies
• Part III: Synthesizing the Evidence: Policy Inefficiencies and Efforts to Explain Them
• 15. Government Policy Inefficiencies and Efforts to Explain Them
• 16. Markets Helping Government
• 17. Some Broader Implications of Markets Helping Government
• Part IV: Markets Helping Government: A Robustness Test and Proactive Perspective
• 18. Market and Government Responses to COVID-19: A Robustness Test
• 19. Conclusion: Advancing the Perspective of Markets Helping Government
• Notes
• References
• Index