Reasons for Government Intervention in Markets
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Explain what is meant by a merit good and why governments provide merit goods such as healthcare free of charge and consider why such provision may not always be successful.
Assess whether a charge made for healthcare at the point of use is likely to be more beneficial to consumers and providers than if healthcare is available to all free of charge.
Assess whether governments should always support the provision of merit goods in markets such as those for education or health care.
Assess the ways in which producers of root ginger might be able to stabilise their incomes.
Assess whether the expected benefits of providing healthcare services free of charge at the point of use exceed the likely costs.
Assess whether all market economies should become mixed economies.
Assess whether bus and local rail systems in cities should receive substantial subsidies from governments.
Discuss whether government policies to influence the free market price for a good can ever improve the allocation of resources in that market.
A government is considering whether to adopt a policy of maximum price legislation in the market for food or to provide food subsidies to alleviate hunger in a period of food shortages.
Discuss whether maximum price legislation or food subsidies are more likely to alleviate hunger under these circumstances.
Discuss the view that in a mixed economy the only role of government should be to provide public goods and the supply of merit goods should be left to the private sector.
Discuss the view that the only goods a government should produce are public goods.