Understanding the private-public divide : markets, governments, and time horizons / Avner Offer.

"Relying on markets alone would make for a poor, dishonest, and miserable society. Banks lend for the short term, and business has to make a profit in less time than that. It succeeds brilliantly when product life is shorter than credit maturities, in retail, consumer durables, services, and so...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author:	Offer, Avner (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Economics. Welfare economics. Free enterprise. Public administration. Public-private sector cooperation.