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Think. There is more to the world than "OMG EVIL CAPITALISM" and "HUZZAH SUPER HAPPY WORKER'S PARADISE UTOPIA HEAVEN!!".
A mixed economy means that the government subsidises it's own businesses pushing out any possibility of market alternatives. A mixed economy will inevitably consist of pointless monopolies.
"BUT MIcs'D AKANOMI IS TEH ONLY WAI pH0R POOR PEOPLE TO GET FREE STUFF!!1 YOU EVIL CAPTLIST OMG..."
No. That has nothing to do with anything. If you had the minimum of logical ability, this is how your thought process would develop.
You would first identify these 2 major factors.
1
State control over a sector of the economy.
2
State subsidisation/tazation over a sector of the economy.
You would observe the mathematical properties of factor 1 and see that there is a minimum and a maximum amount of control the state can have over a sector. You would observe factor 2 and see that there is a conceivably infinite amount of subsidisation and taxation the state can levy on a sector.
You would see that there are 3 general ranges which represent *actual* state subsidisation/taxation policy ranging from high tax to subsides.
Over-taxation (such as the tax used to deter consumption of alcohol), average taxation, subsidisation (expenses paid), over-subsidisation (kickbacks, corrupt bidding).
There are also 3 major policies the state can have in controlling the economy ranging from no control to total control.
No control (privately owned)(except for the regulation needed to preserve justice of course), regulated (beyond that which is needed to preserve justice) and nationalised.
There are 9 possible combinations of the 2 sets. And these aren't the only possibilities in the real world since there are more than these 2 factors.
Just saying "LOL MIXED ECONOMY", is too ambiguous. It could mean anything from totalitarian communism except for the swapping of a tomato for a roast turnip in a school playground in petrograd, to a hardcore coorporate republic except with a tiny defacto government which owns a newspaper stand.
I could go one and explain the best uses and policies concerning the 9 possible combinations of those 2 factors and prove how a libertarian government would work and be more efficient than the current "mixed economy", but I can't be botherred.