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Analyzing Economic Market Interactions as Conflicts: New Concepts to Assess Market-Based Policy Instruments

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Mason, Simon A. () (Center for Security Studies (CSS), Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, ETH Zentrum)
Muller, Adrian () (Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University)

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Complementing market-based policy instruments with conflict analysis approaches provides a wider understanding of market situations and allows to identify minimal requirements regarding needs, power and conflict dynamics. If these are not met, a market cannot be successfully introduced or a liberalization process implemented. Conflict analysis offers a language better suited to the concerns of people negatively affected by new markets. Applying this language helps to counterbalance the predominance of economic concepts. This fosters mutual understanding and enhances the prospect for successful implementation of market-based policies. We illustrate the potential of conflict analysis with examples from water privatization and labeling.

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Paper provided by Göteborg University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers in Economics with number 212.

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Date of creation: 31 Aug 2006
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Publication status: Published in Ecological Economics, 2007, pages 81-90.
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Keywords: market interactions; liberalization; privatization; labeling; conflict analysis; needs;

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D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, and Operations
D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances
H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L43 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
L50 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - General

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  1. Rothschild, Kurt W., 2002. "The absence of power in contemporary economic theory," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(5), pages 433-442. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Andrei Shleifer, 2004. "Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior?," NBER Working Papers 10269, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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