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Free MarketThe forces of supply and demand decide the economic questions and therefore where to allocate resourcesAdvantages and Disadvantages of the Free MarketAdvantages• Resources allocated more efficiently by the price mechanism.• The profit motive is a great incentive, and forces producers to reduce costs and be innovative.• With no imperfections, the free market maximizes community surplus.• Market system relies on a number of factors to ensure that it works efficiently.• The profit motive - the incentive for a reward for enterprise • Good levels of information being available to both producers and consumers price accurately reflecting the costs and benefits of consumption and production • The ease with which resources can move to different uses at the heart of the market system is the profit motive.Disadvantages:• Instability• Market failure- sees Chapter II.• Monopolies and corruption - The natural goal of all firms is to attain monopoly, as this eliminates competition, eliminating the associated costs and thus maximizing profit. If the market structure does not include limiting social forces, financial forces will cause firms to externalize costs such as pollution to gain monopoly. Union Carbide's gas leak in Bhopal is an example of such an externalized cost.Free marketResources and production systems are owned by individuals and the allocation of resources, what, how and for whom, is left to the forces of supply (production) and demand (consumers) operating in a relatively free market.Producers attempt to maximize profits, but if they are poor at predicting:• They produce too much (surpluses) and will lose money.• They underestimate (shortages), will miss the potential profit and a competitor will make the profit instead.• Only those firms, which can predict most closely what consumers will want, will earn adequate money to stay in business.Advantages of free market:• Market forces and the price mechanism without govt. intervention allocate resources.• Profits provide an incentive to reduce costs and be innovative.• The free market maximizes community surplus if there are no failures and imperfections.Disadvantages of the free market:• Market failures and imperfections occur because of public goods, merit goods, externalities and lack of competitive markets.• The system of profits and losses is thought to be unfair, substantial government intervention is needed to cope with income redistribution problems.• The wealthy are taxed to reduce profits• Those marginalized by the system, are supported with tax money• The system is incapable of controlling pollution and producing sustainable growth, planning has been introduced to correct for this problem.
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