Which of the following statements is true about a market economy ?

A. Market participants act as if guided by an invisible hand to produce outcomes that maximize social welfare

B. With a large enough computer, central planners could guide production more efficiently than markets.

C. Taxes help prices communicate costs and benefits to producers and consumers.

D. The strength of a market system is that it tends to distribute resources evenly across consumers.

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