In a free market system, there are producers that make the product and consumers that purchase the product. The government just needs to make sure that the participants are following the laws and regulations and to provide proper infrastructure such as good roads and railways.
the role of the government in the market structure is to control inflection
The traits would be that of property ownership, free enterprise, market mechanism and limited government role.
In centralized economic system everything in the economy is controlled by the government. In this type of economies market does not have any role to play. Production and consumption of goods are controlled by the government.
One essential government role in a market economy is regulation. This allows for competition without monopoly.
actually there are 6 main features of market economies : * private property * freedom of choice and enterprise * self interest as the dominating motive * competition * a reliance on the price system * a very little role for government ( negligible role for government )
Mixed Economy which means free market system but government still has limited role
Role of the government is to take taxes.
role of market and government in economy
Market Economy
A free-market system, although there are no true free market systems. Government always meddles to some extent.
Most economists agree, with some exception, that the role of the government in an economic system is to improve market outcomes in situations where markets fail, primarily due to not meeting the mathematical conditions necessary for efficient price-vector allocations. Government intervention, when market failureoccurs, is seen as a welfare-enhancing outcome because equilibrium can be forcibly restored to a market where it would not otherwise occur. Markets in disequilibriumexperience deadweight inefficiency losses, which represent a significant opportunity cost to society.
The fundamental parts of the legal framework supporting an efficient domestic government securities market usually include an explicit empowerment of the government to borrow, budgetary rules for the issuance of government securities, rules for the organization of the primary market, role of central bank as agent for the government, the debt-management framework, rules governing issuance of government securities, and rules pertaining to the secondary market