Talk:Market for lemons

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 Definition:  One in which consumers cannot distinguish products of quality from defective goods. [d] [e]
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Lemons and lemons

I'm not sure if "lemon" is U.S. or more widespread English for a defective product, but the introduction should clarify this. While I assumed, simply on seeing the title, that it indeed dealt with such matters rather than citrus fruit, I did wonder if some strange economist had done a case study dealing with the markets for the usually pleasantly sour ovoid yellow product of a tree.

Indeed, if I went to the wholesale produce market and bought a case of lemon (fruit) that was inedible, demanded replacements for it but found them equally unsatisfactory, would that be the market for lemon lemons? Lemon market for lemons?

Howard C. Berkowitz 16:53, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

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This article was originally written by Anas Faisal on 7 August 2008. That isn't reflected in the history, because I goofed up when moving this cluster from "Market for Lemons" (with upper-case L). Sorry. Bruce M.Tindall 17:30, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

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