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The Free MarketWhy Do Markets
Exist?
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A market is an arrangement that allows buyers and
sellers to exchange goods and services.
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Markets exist because none of us produces all the goods and services we require to satisfy our
needs and wants.
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Instead of being self-sufficient each of us specializes and then
buys from others what we need.
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The Free Market Economy
• In a free market economy, households and business firms use markets to exchange money and products.
• In the factor market households sell the factors of production to businesses.
• In the product market businesses sell finished goods and services to households.
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The Market’s Self-Regulating Nature
• In every transaction, the buyer and seller consider only their self-interest, or their own personal gain.
• Self-interest is the motivating force in the free market.
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• Producers in a free market struggle for the dollars of consumers. This is known as competition, and is the regulating force of the free market.
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• The interaction of buyers and sellers, motivated by self-interest and regulated by competition, all happens without a central plan.
• This phenomenon is called “the invisible hand of the marketplace.”
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Free Market
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Advantages• Economic Efficiency
• Economic Growth
• Economic Freedom
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Disadvantages
• Economic equity and economic security are very difficult to achieve in a pure market economy.