Microeconomics
Microeconomics
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ISBN: 9781260507140
Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 8, Problem 1QE
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The reasons for a potentially beneficial role of government intervention.

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The government can intervene into the market to solve the problem of inefficiency in allocation of resources. When the economy experiences depression, low economic activity, market failure, imperfect information, and externality, the government enters into action. That is, the government introduces new policies and rules to solve these issues. Thus, the government will intervene in order to stabilize the economy.

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Inefficiency: Inefficiency implies an economic efficiency that fails to allocate resources optimally to each individual in the economy.

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