Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
William L. Anderson
Anthony G. Stair
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ABSTRACT : In his famous 1970 paper that raised issues about “lemons” problems in markets in which asymmetric information places at least one party to an exchange (usually buyers) at a big disadvantage, George Aklerlof wrote that if dishonesty continues, a “Gresham’s Law” situation can arise in which the bad products will drive good products out