market failure Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/market-failure/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:12:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png market failure Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/market-failure/ 32 32 The case for liberalism: Pervasive market failure in the economy and the polity https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/the-case-for-liberalism-pervasive-market-failure-in-the-economy-and-the-polity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-case-for-liberalism-pervasive-market-failure-in-the-economy-and-the-polity https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/the-case-for-liberalism-pervasive-market-failure-in-the-economy-and-the-polity/#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 05:54:45 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/?p=34975 WP 2023-02. Executive Summary We argue to look at the polity with the very same vista with which modern economics looks at markets, as the polity is nothing but the…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/the-case-for-liberalism-pervasive-market-failure-in-the-economy-and-the-polity/feed/ 0 Much Ado About Pigou https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/much-ado-about-pigou/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=much-ado-about-pigou https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/much-ado-about-pigou/#respond Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:08:41 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/much-ado-about-pigou/ This is the name of the paper from Bruce Yandle that you can read in the last issue of Cato’s Regulation. In the surrounding flood of new taxes, Bruce Yandle is addressing the question of whether the intention behind them is to correct “market failures” as pollution, obesity, financial speculations and so on, or to simply raise revenue for a deficit-plagued government.

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