Markets provide powerful incentives for workplace and product safety through liability/court systems, loss of market share, and compensating wage differentials for risky jobs—and these forces have grown stronger as information about employers spreads more freely (e.g., job-market blogs), making it hard to hide unsafe conditions.

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Speaker

Clifford Winston

Evidence Quote

it's pretty hard these days to sort of hide the fact that that working for a particular firm is is safe when in fact it's unsafe

Source

Clifford Winston on Market Failure and Government Failure 12/28/2009EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:37:54 AM

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