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  • Amazon

  • Chapter 1

    • Ancient Athens Agora
    • e-commerce
    • The only natural economy.”
  • Chapter 2

    • Bottom-up market creation
  • Chapter 3

    • AIDS drugs become unaffordable to Africans
      • The Bad Side of Global Markets
    • Market incentives are the driving force behind the creation of drugs
    • Change of Intellectual Property Rights
      • Top-down market design
      • This is a change in the definition of “ownership”
        • That’s equivalent to 4 of the following 5 conditions.
  • Characteristics of a functioning market platform

    • Smooth flow of information
      • Information cost issues Chapter 4
        • Moroccan Bazaar
          • Search Costs Weaken Competitive Pressure
          • Intermediaries effective in improving market inefficiencies
    • That people can be trusted to keep their promises.
      • Mechanisms supporting trust Chapter 5
    • To promote competition.
      • Effects of Competition Chapter 6
        • Balance of bargaining power
        • Efficient resource allocation
      • Competitive Market Design Chapter 7 - Design of [auction
    • Property rights are protected, but not overly so.
      • Positive aspects of property rights protection Chapter 8
        • Agrarian Reform in China
          • real property right
      • Negative aspects Chapter 9
        • intellectual property right
        • patent
    • Controlled side effects on third parties
      • This is about externalities.
        • Chapter 10.
          • marine fisheries
          • sports league
          • Norms by the community
          • Top-down taxation and norms
          • Define property rights top-down and let the bottom-up negotiate - carbon credit Something like this.
      • Negative externalities, of course, can be suppressed, but positive externalities also hinder the market, whether this should be suppressed or not. Chapter 11.
  • Collusion and bribery Chapter 12.

  • Communist and Market Economies

  • Use of local knowledge

  • Parallel experiments based on diverse predictions

    • After all, this is about using swarm intelligence as a means of optimization.
  • Collective elements are necessary.

    • Underground economy without state protection
      • Transactions are limited to simple and small
    • The state must finance and produce for market platforms and public goods
  • Why do centralized enterprises operate efficiently?

  • Because the shareholders have a stake in the company through private ownership?

    • →It’s hard to explain a large company with separate ownership and management with that. Chapter 14.
  • Making Markets Work for Public Policy

    • Sulfur Dioxide Pollution Rights Market Chapter 15.
  • Economic Reforms in China

  • Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth Chapter 17.

  • The market is not the objective.

    • The only reliable way to improve living standards
  • The market is always right or the market is always evil requires an ideological perspective, a pragmatic approach


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