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  2. Market failure - Wikipedia

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    Different economists have different views about what events are the sources of market failure. Mainstream economic analysis widely accepts that a market failure (relative to Pareto efficiency) can occur for three main reasons: if the market is "monopolised" or a small group of businesses hold significant market power, if production of the good or service results in an externality (external ...

  3. Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    Earlier mobile phones (including water-resistant ones) had back covers that could be opened by the user in order to replace the battery. [24] On December 9, 2022, the EU Parliament reached an agreement to require, from 2026, manufacturers to design all electrical appliances sold in the EU (and not used predominantly in wet conditions) so that ...

  4. Marketing failure - Wikipedia

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    An outcome failure is a failure to obtain a good or service at all; a process failure is a failure to receive the good or service in an appropriate or preferable way. [1] Thus, a person who is only interested in the outcome of an activity would consider it to be an outcome failure if the core issue has not been resolved or a core need is not met.

  5. History of macroeconomic thought - Wikipedia

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    New Keynesians offered explanations for the failure of the labor market to clear. In a Walrasian market, unemployed workers bid down wages until the demand for workers meets the supply. [ 157 ] If markets are Walrasian, the ranks of the unemployed would be limited to workers transitioning between jobs and workers who choose not to work because ...

  6. List of stock market crashes and bear markets - Wikipedia

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    Lasting through the 1970s and early-1980s, this was the end of a boom that started in 1969, compounded by the 1970s energy crisis coupled with early 1980s Latin American debt crisis. [7] [8] [9] 1973–1974 stock market crash: Jan 1973 UK: Lasting 23 months, dramatic rise in oil prices, the miners' strike and the downfall of the Heath government.

  7. Panic of 1907 - Wikipedia

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    Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall National Memorial, with its statue of George Washington, is seen on the right.. The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic or Knickerbocker Crisis, [1] was a financial crisis that took place in the United States over a three-week period starting in mid-October, when the New York Stock Exchange suddenly fell almost 50 ...

  8. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    A team of more than 50 journalists from 21 countries spent nearly a year documenting the bank’s failure to protect people moved aside in the name of progress. The reporting partners analyzed thousands of World Bank records, interviewed hundreds of people and reported on the ground in Albania, Brazil, Ethiopia, Honduras, Ghana, Guatemala ...

  9. List of corporate collapses and scandals - Wikipedia

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    This huge early publicly listed multinational company founded in 1602 fell victim to declining markets in the late 18th century, internal corruption and excessive distribution of dividends (in excess of its profits), and finally Anglo-Dutch wars. It was nationalised by the Batavian Republic in 1796 but nevertheless closed down at the end of 1799.