WHAT IS AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM?. Economic System How the government and businesses work to provide goods...

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WHAT IS AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM?

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Page 1: WHAT IS AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM?. Economic System How the government and businesses work to provide goods and services to consumers Three Economic Questions.

WHAT IS AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM?

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Economic System

• How the government and businesses work to provide goods and services to consumers

Three Economic Questions1.What goods and service should be produced?

2.How should they be produced?

3.For whom should the goods and services be produced?

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Three Types of Systems

1. Pure Command

2. Pure Market

3. Modern Mixed

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Pure Command Economy

• Government lead

• Government controls economic decision-making

• Government provides the answers to all three economic questions

• Example: communist country

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Pure Market Economy

• Buyers and sellers direct the economic system

• Market decides answers to three economic questions

• Also called a free market, free enterprise or capitalist system

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What’s Free about “Free Enterprise”

• Business is free to establish place of operation

• Consumers are free to buy goods and services when and where they choose

• Freedom to own private property

• Freedom of choice

• Produce any product or service you choose

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Modern Mixed Economy

• No economic system acts in a pure form

• Contain elements of both

What System Does Canada Have?

•Primarily a market, includes aspects of command system

Market EconomyCommand Economy

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