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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.ziptoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldUnfathomably based
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    16 days ago

    From the link you posted

    In practice, governments usually intervene to reduce externalities such as greenhouse gas emissions;

    An absence of any of the conditions of perfect competition is considered a market failure. Regulatory intervention may provide a substitute force to counter a market failure, which leads some economists to believe that some forms of market regulation may be better than an unregulated market at providing a free market.



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    16 days ago

    Wrong, a market can only be free if it’s regulated, example: I have a competing factory up river from you and we both need clean water to operate, I output toxic chemicals into the water as a result of my operations making your business impossible.

    You have to close your business and I get to set the price however I want without competition, in this example the lack of regulations create a less free market.