Government Intervention
Resumen
Markets are powerful, but left entirely alone they do not always produce outcomes that benefit society. A factory has no built-in incentive to pay for the pollution it pumps into a river, a dominant firm has no built-in incentive to keep prices low once rivals have been squeezed out, and an employer paying the bare minimum a desperate worker will accept has no built-in incentive to pay more. Government steps in at exactly these points.
In this lesson you will examine the toolkit governments use when markets produce outcomes that harm third parties or exploit workers: taxation, subsidies, regulation and pollution permits for externalities; competition rules to keep markets working for consumers; and minimum wage laws in the labour market. For each tool you will weigh genuine advantages against genuine disadvantages, and practise describing precisely what a minimum wage does to a labour market diagram.
Objetivos
- Government policy to deal with externalities: taxation, subsidies, fines, regulation, pollution permits
- Advantages and disadvantages of each government policy
- Government regulation of competition to promote competition, limit monopoly power, protect consumer interests, control mergers and takeovers
- Government intervention in the labour market: reasons for minimum wage, advantages and disadvantages of minimum wage, the use of diagrams to show impact of the introduction of a minimum wage and the increase of a minimum wage
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- Which government policy involves a fixed, tradable allowance to emit a set amount of pollution? A) Regulation B) Subsidy C) Pollution permits D) Fine Answer: C
- A minimum wage is best described as: A) The average wage paid across an economy B) A wage floor below which employers cannot legally pay workers C) The highest wage a firm is allowed to pay D) A wage set only for government employees Answer: B
- On a labour market diagram, a minimum wage set above the equilibrium wage causes: A) A shortage of labour B) No change in employment C) A surplus of labour D) A fall in the wage rate Answer: C
- Which of the following is a disadvantage of using taxation to reduce pollution? A) It generates no revenue for government B) The true external cost is difficult to measure accurately C) It cannot be adjusted to the size of the problem D) It has no effect on firms' costs Answer: B
- Government regulation of competition aims to do all of the following EXCEPT: A) Limit monopoly power B) Control mergers and takeovers C) Guarantee every firm an equal market share D) Protect consumer interests Answer: C
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