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Capitalism

For many, market failure is taken for granted as an accepted economic principle, when in fact it can be quite controversial. "Market Failure" is most commonly defined as a failure of the market to achieve economic efficiency, that is, a failure...

Prices, and the personal freedom to set prices, make an ordered market economy possible.

Prices coordinate economic activity in three major ways:

  1. Prices communicate information. The information prices communicate guides both...

Economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "creative destruction" to describe the evolutionary process in an economy in which new ideas, processes, equipment, products, technologies, skills and jobs are constantly destroying old ones. The...

Competition occurs when people or organizations reach for the same prize or goal at the same time. The prize might be a customer, a job, a grade, or an eBay item. When you think about it, there is little in life for which we don't compete. We...