Some of the outcomes of laissez-faire Economics were:
- Businesses pay workers low
- Pollution of air and water
- Poverty traps that cannot be escaped through free choice
- General glut that results from overproduction or underconsumption
- Monopoly power that emerges naturally in the market and allows businesses to exploit consumers
- Exploitation of the working class that pushes wages down to subsistence and compels laborers to work in harsh and unsafe conditions
- External economies that generate situations where desirable goods are underproduced on the market, and undesirable goods are overproduced on the market
- Public goods that are not supplied by the market due to free-rider problems
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