Government Failure

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  • Government Failure
    • Distortions of Price
      • Govt may place tariffs on imported agriculture
        • this is so that high cost farmers in the uk are not cut out of the market
        • However domestic consumers may have to pay higher prices
          • And land may be used inefficiently
            • another good could be grown
      • Help lower income
        • rise minimum wage
          • may price people out of work
    • Law of unintended consequences
      • Common Agricultural policy in 1962
        • aim to boost agricultural productivity
          • 1980s
            • EU budget was spent on CAP
              • Increased prices if it was not implemented
          • Depressed world prices of agricultural goods
            • EU bought goods at the minimum price
              • sold these on to the world market below the price
                • Developed countries could not earn of enough
                  • developing countries could not compete with low EU prices
    • Excessive administrationcosts
      • The cost of administering a policy does not outweigh the social welfare
    • information gaps
      • The government like most economic agents may not posses
        • all the relevant data
          • the benefits of spending on infrastructure
    • Conflicting objectives
      • The government may wish too cut taxes
        • but increasing spending on Defence
      • Decrease inflation, but boost growth
        • what happens to interest rates
      • Opportunity cost of implementing a policy
        • one policy may have a higher welfare than the other
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