From online dating sites to tourists paying too much for a bottle of water, to monopolies in media, we'll explore market failures and how they directly affect us.

From Media Monopolies to Dating Sites: How Markets Fail and Why It Matters

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Wed, Nov 28 at 7:30 p.m.   |   90 minutes

Our market economy produces trillions of dollars in wealth and provides us with ever more stuff. We are richer than any humans that have come before, and by many measures, life has never been better. In other words, the market system generally works. But periodically markets fail, and when they do the results can be catastrophic. In this Olio we will explore how market failure occurs and why market failure seems to be happening more frequently.

There are a number of ways markets fail, from externalities to asymmetric information, and the idea of this Olio is to delve into the market failures happening in real life. From crypto currencies, to online dating sites to tourists paying too much for a bottle of water, we'll explore market failures and how they directly affect us.

Teacher: Lev Moscow
Venue: Nowadays
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