"Non-Market" Failures and Market Failures

Charles Wolf, Jr.

ResearchPublished 1978

Comparisons between the shortcomings of markets and those of nonmarket attempts to provide remedies are rare. When attempted, as in Lindblom's recent [Politics and Markets], the result usually criticizes the market's shortcomings more severely and effectively than those of the "nonmarket." A major reason for this is the ready availability of a powerful and familiar theory of market failure, and the absence of a corresponding theory to explain nonmarket failure. This paper is a condensed version of P-6034, [A Theory of Non-Market Failure: Framework for Implementation Analysis].

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