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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a market failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about economics to describe a situation where the allocation of goods and services is not efficient, leading to a net loss in social welfare.
Example: "The government intervened to address a market failure that was causing significant environmental damage."
Alternatives: "an economic inefficiency" or "a failure in the market system".
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Instead it is a market failure.
There is a market failure here.
A market failure of a sort.
The classic case of a market failure is an externality.
The housing crisis is instead due to a market failure.
As rhetoric, describing people's unwillingness to subsidize others voluntarily as a "market failure" is misleading.
Earlier generations of economists diagnosed a market failure that governments could set to rights.
Only by internalising the costs, through taxes, will a market failure be corrected.
"It's an attempt to have a market solution to a market failure," Mr. Lee said.
Do you think that what we witnessed was a government failure rather than a market failure?
The UK's Green Investment Bank, set up to address a market failure, is to be privatised.
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