ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Mixed economic systems are not laissez-faire systems, because the government is involved in planning the use of some resources and can exert control over businesses in the private sector. Governments may seek to redistribute wealth by taxing the private sector and by using funds from taxes to promote social objectives.

Detailed explanation-2: -Economists, however, identify six major functions of governments in market economies. Governments provide the legal and social framework, maintain competition, provide public goods and services, redistribute income, correct for externalities, and stabilize the economy.

Detailed explanation-3: -While a mixed economy combines free market with central government planning and intervention, a market economy relies purely on the free market (and the rules of supply and demand) to regulate the economy. For this reason, profit motives, incentives, and capitalism are the driving factors of the economy.

Detailed explanation-4: -mixed economy, in economics, a market system of resource allocation, commerce, and trade in which free markets coexist with government intervention.