The Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas

Ronald Coase

Econ Journal Watch, 2022, vol. 19, issue 1, 166–175

Abstract: If economic theory teaches the desirability of government intervention in markets with externalities, monopoly power, asymmetric knowledge, and products with false allure, then it can scarcely be urged more strongly than in the market for ideas.

Keywords: Freedom of speech; free speech; free press; freedom; John Milton; Areopagitica (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A12 A13 A14 A2 K0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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