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Public and private sectors

This lesson focuses on the differences between the public and private sectors. It is important that students, by the end of the lesson, recognise the differences between the two sectors but also that: Public and private sectors are two components of mixed economies only. The private sector is not part of a command or planned economy while a free market economy has no place for a public sector. That the public sector...


Tags: public sector, private sectors, public goods, non rivalrous, non excludable

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