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Market Failure

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There’s a joke that goes something like this: how many economists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: none, the invisible hand will take care of it.

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Dorman, P. (2014). Market Failure. In: Microeconomics. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37434-0_15

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