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1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets

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Question 111

Extract D states: 'Faced with severe fiscal constraints and rising demands for statutory services, metropolitan and county councils are increasingly forced to choose between funding essential adult social care and continuing discretionary subsidies for local bus networks.'

Using the extract and your knowledge of economics, assess whether local governments should continue to fund and subsidise public transport services, such as local bus networks.

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1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Economics
  3. /1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets

378 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets, covering 1.8.1 How markets and prices allocate resources, 1.8.2 The meaning of market failure, 1.8.3 Public goods, private goods and quasi-public goods, 1.8.4 Positive and negative externalities in consumption and production, 1.8.5 Merit and demerit goods, 1.8.6 Market imperfections, 1.8.7 Competition policy (A-level only), 1.8.8 Public ownership, privatisation, regulation and deregulation of markets (A-level only), 1.8.9 Government intervention in markets, and 1.8.10 Government failure. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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