Market:Error log

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We have just started logging errors. On this page, you will find information about all errors that persisted on the site for more than one month on any page.

Page	Error description	Version where it was introduced	Version where it was corrected	Why error? Why not caught? ("I" refers to Vipul)
First-degree price discrimination	second-degree and third-degree price discrimination are interchanged	June 17, 2009	July 6, 2019	The meanings were not in my head correctly when I was writing this passage
Price bundling	missed min operator on one term, and did not parenthesize an expression in the sum	September 11, 2016	Series of edits on October 29, 2016	didn't review table carefully enough
Pareto efficiency criterion	interchanged "better off" and "worse off"	August 30, 2011	February 28, 2012	carelessness, didn't visit page often
Effect of sales tax on social surplus	forgot "government surplus" in one equation at top, included in later analysis		November 30, 2012	carelessness
Effect of sales tax on market price and quantity traded	the justification for the claim that monopologies will never switch to a lower-price, higher-quality equilibrium was incorrect for the revenue-proportional case	September 18, 2016 (series of edits leading up to this)	March 15, 2017	The arguments were tricky and I made an error translating intuition to reasoning. The underlying intuition was in my head (and had previously been worked out on paper) but I ignored some of the subtleties when translating it.