L’asymétrie de l’information permet aux Illusionistes d’exister. Il rend l’accès à des produits de haute qualité compliqué.
George Akerlof’s most famous paper introduced economists to the idea that information asymmetries distort markets and reduce the quality of goods because sellers with more information can pass off low-quality products as more valuable than informed buyers appraise them to be. (PDF, summary)
Customers that can’t assess the quality of products pay the wrong amount for them, creating a disincentive for high-quality products to emerge and working against their success when they do.
Source : https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/