What are the two reasons for the government to intervene in a market?

To promote efficiency and equality

Economics

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Economist Kenneth Arrow has shown mathematically that no system of voting will consistently represent the underlying preferences of voters. This finding is called

A) Arrow's median voter model. B) Arrow's Amendment to the public choice model. C) Arrow's majority vote paradox. D) the Arrow impossibility theorem.

Economics

Suppose the market equilibrium price of wheat is $5 per bushel, and the government sets a price floor of $7 per bushel to aid growers. What is the most likely result of this action?

a. There will be a shortage of wheat. b. There will be a surplus of wheat. c. There will be an increase in the quantity of wheat demanded as the result of the price floor. d. There will be a decrease in the quantity of wheat supplied as the result of the price floor.

Economics