Which of the following is true of a market economy?

A. The government answers the basic economic questions of what gets produced, how it gets produced, and who gets it.
B. It relies on millions of individual economic decisions to determine economic outcomes.
C. Decisions are regulated by a central agency.
D. In its pure form, it is also known as a command economy.


Answer: B

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