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Government Failure

Level:
A-Level
Board:
AQA, Edexcel, IB, OCR

Last updated 2 Jul 2018

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What is government failure?

Even with good intentions governments seldom get their policy application correct. They can tax, control and regulate but the outcome may be a deepening of the market failure or even worse a new failure may arise

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Evaluating Government Intervention in Markets - Revision Video

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