what is the role of government in a mixed economy?
There are three roles of a government in a mixed economy. Protection; Regulation; Public Benefits; To control market forces and to make sure that public goods are being produced. To help control and regulate the means of production. 1  To protect the public and to preserve private enterprise. To be a little more specific, a Mixed Market Economy is one founded on Free Market principles, but which uses government regulation and monitoring to control certain excesses that True Free Market (TFM) system tends to express.