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The Market for Lemons

1970 paper by the economist George Akerlof
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The Market for Lemons

Summary

The Market for Lemons is an academic journal article[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of academic_journal_article entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (361 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Market for Lemons's field of work was economics[3].
  • The Market for Lemons authored George Akerlof[4].
  • The Market for Lemons's instance of is recorded as academic journal article[5].
  • The Market for Lemons's page is recorded as 488–500[6].
  • The Market for Lemons's DOI is recorded as 10.2307/1879431[7].
  • The Market for Lemons's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The Market for Lemons's issue is recorded as 3[9].
  • The Market for Lemons's volume is recorded as 84[10].
  • The Market for Lemons's publication date is recorded as +1970-08-01T00:00:00Z[11].
  • The Market for Lemons's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01frj6[12].
  • The Market for Lemons's JSTOR article ID is recorded as 1879431[13].
  • The Market for Lemons's main subject is recorded as information asymmetry[14].
  • The Market for Lemons's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Market-for-Lemons-Quality-Uncertainty-and-the-Market-Mechanism[15].
  • The Market for Lemons's published in is recorded as Quarterly Journal of Economics[16].
  • The Market for Lemons's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Market for “Lemons” : Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism'}[17].
  • The Market for Lemons's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as the-market-for-lemons-quality-uncertainty-and-the-market-mechanism[18].
  • The Market for Lemons's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as lemons-model[19].
  • The Market for Lemons's Google Scholar paper ID is recorded as 13357329716610593187[20].
  • The Market for Lemons's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778666140[21].

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Designation and Status

The Market for Lemons's instance of is recorded as academic journal article[5].

Why It Matters

The Market for Lemons ranks in the top 8% of academic_journal_article entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (361 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

economics George Akerlof

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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