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Topics Covered
- Government failure
- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
- Market distortions
- Public choice theory
- Conflicting interests
- Short-termism
- Regulatory capture
- Dumping
- Externalities
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Ramesh, S. (2019, October 31). Government failure: does government failure occur? [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved November 8, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/NQID1120.Export Citation (RIS)
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Other Talks in the Series: Introduction to Microeconomics
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0:00
Hi, I'm Dr. Sangaralingam Ramesh.
Welcome to Talk Number 14 in
these Henry Stewart Talk series: "Introduction to Microeconomics".
In this talk, we'll be looking at government failure and seeking to answer the question,
does government failure occur?
0:16
So the causes of government failure may be
such things as the government not having enough information.
So we assume that the free market economy, the price mechanism,
carried all the information required by
buyers and sellers to make buying and selling decisions.
However, the government may not be able to gather enough information or have
enough resources to do so in order to make
decisions which lead to an efficient allocation of resources.
So if we take the case of a government deciding on
allocating public funds to either private schools, grammar schools,
or state comprehensive schools,
it may not have enough information to decide which of
these types of schools actually is better off for society.
Governments may also have conflicting objectives in
which case arises the opportunity cost of decisions.
Should the government spend more money on subsidizing
private education or should it spend more money on state education?
There are also large administrative costs with government gathering information
about which schemes may be more better for society than others.
So for example, if government decides on
subsidizing an apprentice scheme using taxpayer's money,
for example if it spends taxpayer's money on allowing for 50,000 apprentices on
an apprentice scheme but only 10,000 of those apprentices
actually gained full-time employment at the end of the apprentice scheme,
only a few will benefit.
So the government does incur a large administrative cost from trying to
gather information and also on implementing the scheme,
but only a few have benefited.
So in this case,
an opportunity cost also arises.
So we say that because the government has not enough information
because the government objectives may conflict,
should it spend more money on the education system?
Should it spend more money on giving young people work experience on apprentice schemes?
May have conflicting goals and therefore opportunity cost arises.
So it may be the case that government action may actually lead to
a misallocation of resources resulting in a loss of economic welfare.