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Economists spend a great deal of time explaining how market prices are determined, and almost all of that time is spent explaining why prices are positive (above zero). Their price analyses almost always reinforce an often-repeated quip: “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
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McKenzie, R.B., Tullock, G. (2012). Why Some Goods Are Free. In: The New World of Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27364-3_16
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