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Originally Posted by mykalberta
I agree that pure market forces include no government involvement.
The decision to ban the bulbs is all governmental regulation, not market forces (it would be market forces if consumers (on their own) decided not to purchase the bulbs so the the companies making them went bankrupt, that would be market forces). What happens now in the industry will be market forces.
I agree with your point but see what the other poster is trying to get at (we dont live in a pure market economy and so its difficult to exclude the government).
MYK
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Thank you.
But I think that you dont need to live in a pure market economy to call government a non market force (see my post above).