Provide A Legal System: Visual 1

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Visual 1

THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN A


MARKET ECONOMY

• Provide a Legal System to make and


enforce laws and protect private property
rights
• Provide Public Goods that individuals or
private businesses would not provide
• Correct Market Failures such as external
costs and external benefits (Externalities)
• Maintain Competition by regulating
monopolies
• Redistribute Income by taxing those with
larger incomes and helping those in need
• Stabilize the Economy by reducing
unemployment and inflation and promoting
economic growth.

Eminent domain is the power to force the


transfer of property from a private owner to the
government for a public purpose.

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