I really, really, really wish that Mankiw had added two words. "In Theory"
In reality, market failures are defined as "outcomes I don't like" and externalities are defined so broadly as to have no meaning at all.
So yes, government can, in theory, improve market outcomes, I just don't trust the lot of economically illiterate, moral degenerate scumbags currently in office do actually do so.
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