when the government owns some but not all the means of production and may legally circumvent replace limit or otherwise regulate private economic interests it is said to be a mixed economy or mixed economic system a mixed economy respects property rights but places limits on them 
property owners are restricted as to how they exchange with one another these restrictions come in many forms such as minimum wage laws tariffs quotas windfall taxes license restrictions prohibited products or contracts direct public expropriation antitrust legislation legal tender laws subsidies and eminent domain governments in mixed economies also fully or partly own and operate certain industries especially those considered public goods in contrast with pure capitalism also known as laissez faire capitalism or anarcho capitalism all industries are left up to private ownership and operation including public goods and no central government authority provides regulation or supervision of economic activity in general 11