The elasticity of demand with respect to product failures ; or why the market for quack medicines flourished for more than 150 years

"Between 1810 and 1939, real per capita spending on patent medicines grew by a factor of 114; real per capita GDP by a factor of 5. The long-term growth and survival this industry is puzzling when juxtaposed with standard historical accounts, which typically portray patent medicines as quack m...

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1. Verfasser: Troesken, Werner (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. 2010
Schriftenreihe:NBER working paper series 15699
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