Modern Principles: Macroeconomics
Modern Principles: Macroeconomics
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ISBN: 9781319098773
Author: Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok
Publisher: Worth Publishers
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Eliminate shortage in free market.

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A free market eliminates shortage by letting the price rise. By this way, it tends to reduce the demand for a good or service while increasing the supply, thereby eliminating shortage.

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Free market: Free market is an economic system in which prices of goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, that is demand and supply is based on no or little government control.

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