Contents:
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Perspectives on Government and Markets and the Scope and Content of the Analysis
Part I: Markets Helping Government Address Economic Goals
3. Why Markets Can Help Government Address Economic Goals
4. Protecting Consumers against Anticompetitive Behavior
5. Protecting Consumers When Technology Appears to Prevent Price Competition
6. Enabling Individuals to Make More-Informed Decisions
7. Addressing Negative Externalities Efficiently
8. Improving Public Production
9. Encouraging Innovations by Firms and Individuals
Part II: How Markets Can Help Government Accomplish Social Goals
10. Why Markets Could Help Government Achieve Social Goals
11. Reducing Poverty
12. Fairness in Labor Markets
13. Merit Goods
14. Expanding the Role of Markets to Help Address Social Goals Policies
Part III: Synthesizing the Evidence: Policy Inefficiencies and Efforts to Explain Them
15. Government Policy Inefficiencies and Efforts to Explain Them
16. Markets Helping Government
17. Some Broader Implications of Markets Helping Government
Part IV: Markets Helping Government: A Robustness Test and Proactive Perspective
18. Market and Government Responses to COVID-19: A Robustness Test
19. Conclusion: Advancing the Perspective of Markets Helping Government
Notes
References
Index