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What Is a Market Economy?

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In a society, all people are consumers. They have to have goods, clothing, shelter, and medicines, among other things. But consumers do not produce for their own consumption. Products and services are produced by some people and distributed by others that form what is called the market system in general. The market system distributes the goods and services produced to all consumers.

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Samli, A.C. (2014). What Is a Market Economy?. In: Dynamic Markets and Conventional Ignorance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137370211_2

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