Editing Market failure (section)

=== Zerbe and McCurdy ===
Zerbe and McCurdy connected criticism of market failure paradigm to transaction costs. Market failure paradigm is defined as follows:

"A fundamental problem with the concept of market failure, as economists occasionally recognize, is that it describes a situation that exists everywhere."

Transaction costs are part of each market exchange, although the price of transaction costs is not usually determined. They occur everywhere and are unpriced. Consequently, market failures and externalities can arise in the economy every time transaction costs arise. There is no place for government intervention. Instead, government should focus on the elimination of both transaction costs and costs of provision.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=McCurdy|first1=Howard E.|last2=Zerbe|first2=Richard O. Jr.|date=1999|title=The Failure of Market Failure|journal=Journal of Policy Analysis and Management|volume=18|issue=4|pages=558–578|doi=10.1002/(SICI)1520-6688(199923)18:4<558::AID-PAM2>3.0.CO;2-U|s2cid=17174754 }}</ref>