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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAlain Marciano and Steven G. Medema - Market Failure in Context: Introduction
Part 1. Before “Market Failure(s)”: The Failure of the Market SystemNahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes - The British Tariff Reform Controversy and the Genesis of Pigou's Wealth and Welfare, 1903–12Thomas C. Leonard - Progressive Era Origins of the Regulatory State and the Economist as ExpertMalcolm Rutherford - Institutionalism and the Social Control of BusinessRoger E. Backhouse - Economic Power and the Financial Machine: Competing Conceptions of Market Failure in the Great DepressionBradley W. Bateman - Analyzing Market Failure: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes
Part 2. Market Failures: The Post–World War II NarrowingJ. Daniel Hammond - Paul Samuelson on Public Goods: The Road to NihilismMarianne Johnson - Public Goods, Market Failure, and Voluntary ExchangeJohn D. Singleton - Sorting Charles TieboutSebastian Berger - K. William Kapp's Social Theory of Social CostsDavid Colander - Framing the Economic Policy Debate