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ECONOMIC
SYSTEMS
Economic System
Factors of Production
Economic Resources
What to produce?
How to produce?
For whom to produce?
Traditional Economic
System
Command Economic
System
Problems
Consumers get low priority.
Little freedom of choice
few products.
Resources owned by the
state are often wasted
individuals dont care if they
dont own it.
Characterized as encouraging :
Marketplace competition
Private ownership of businesses
Adam Smith
Supply (Voluntary
Exchange)
Demand (Voluntary
Exchange)
Problems
Continuum of Economic
Systems
Command
Economy
Communism
On the far left
Socialism
Left of
center but
right of
communism
Market
Economy
Capitalism
On the far
right
Example of Economies
Pure
Market
Economy
Mexico
Australia U.S.
Sweden
Russia
Pure
Command
Economy
Mainland North
Korea
China