Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89517 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2003/26
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
The last quarter-century has seen the rise of an almost religious belief in the efficacy of market organization of economic activity. While there are strong empirically supported reasons for a bias toward market organization, particularly considering the alternatives, there are many areas of economic, social, and political activity where simple market organization is highly problematic. When we use markets in these areas, market organization tends to be supplemented by regulation and other nonmarket structures. There are a number of areas where we fence out markets, and use other forms of organization and governance. There used to be in economics a strong understanding of the limits of market organization, and the complex structures that in many cases were needed if markets were to work well. The purpose of this essay is to rekindle this understanding.
Subjects: 
Markets
Regulation
Public Support
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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