Causes of Market Failure in Providing Essential Services
In the context of essential services, market failure often stems from the characteristics of public goods or the presence of significant positive externalities. Because private firms cannot capture the full social benefit of these services, they tend to be underproduced or not produced at all by the private market, necessitating government intervention.
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