When governments intervene in markets—such as imposing price controls, quantity controls, or taxes— this affects consumer and producer surplus. In this lesson, learn about government interventions alter incentives, how to use a supply-demand model to illustrate these effects, how to calculate the effects of government interventions on consumer and producer surplus, and the role elasticity plays in
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