“[In a ‘market for lemons’] there is an incentive for sellers to market poor quality merchandise, since the returns for good quality accrue mainly to the entire group whose statistic is affected rather than to the individual seller. As a result there tends to be a reduction in the average quality of goods” -- George Akerlof, from “The Market for ‘Lemons’: Quality, Uncertainty and The Market Mechanism”
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