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What is a market failure?

What is a market failure? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (economics) a situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient
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The federal government has failed to correct what Sir Nicholas Stern has called the biggest market failure.
The root of the problem is the inherent unsoundness of State-granted guarantees to firms against market failure.
Prevailing economic theory suggests that such information disparities can lead to market failure.
Thus the aid provides an incentive for Investbx to come into existence and to target market failure.
The report claims the retail pharmacy market exhibits a number of the classic symptoms of potential market failure.
It was thought that large, centralised institutions were needed to stand between the public and the prospect of market failure.

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