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Failure Of Market Failure

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Market failure happens when the price mechanism fails to allocate scarce resources efficiently or when the operation of market forces lead to a net social welfare loss. Market failure exists when the competitive outcome of markets is not satisfactory from the point of view of society. In economics, market failure is a situation in which the allocation of goods and services is not efficient. That is, there exists another conceivable outcome where an individual may be made better-off without making someone else worse-off.

Market failures can be viewed as scenarios where individuals pursuit of pure self-interest leads to results that are not efficient – that …show more content…

BREAKING DOWN 'Market Failure' : Market failures have negative effects on the economy because an optimal allocation of resources is not attained. In other words, the social costs of producing the good or service (all of the opportunity cost of the input resources used in its creation) are not minimized, and this results in a waste of some resources. Take, for example, the common argument against minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws set wages above the going market-clearing wage in an attempt to raise market wages. Critics argue that this higher wage cost will cause employers to hire fewer minimum-wage employees than before the law was implemented. As a result, more minimum wage workers are left unemployed, creating a social cost and resulting in market failure.

Types of Market-Failures
Natural monopoly, Externalities, Public Goods, Asymmetric information, Moral hazard, Transaction cots. Anyone of these six failures legitimates

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