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311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?

The public has almost no chance to buy good tickets to the best events. Ticket brokers, meanwhile, make huge profits on the secondary markets. Here's the story of how this market got so dysfunctional, how it can be fixed – and why it probably won't be.

Episode 311 of the Freakonomics Radio podcast, hosted by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher, titled "311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?" was published on December 7, 2017 and runs 47 minutes.

December 7, 2017 ·47m · Freakonomics Radio

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The public has almost no chance to buy good tickets to the best events. Ticket brokers, meanwhile, make huge profits on the secondary markets. Here's the story of how this market got so dysfunctional, how it can be fixed – and why it probably won't be.

The public has almost no chance to buy good tickets to the best events. Ticket brokers, meanwhile, make huge profits on the secondary markets. Here's the story of how this market got so dysfunctional, how it can be fixed – and why it probably won't be.


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