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Section 1
Types of Economic System
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Tradition Economy | based on society's values |
| Commmand Economy | relies on gov't officials to answer the three basic economic questions |
| Market Economy | individuals answer three basic economic questions |
| Market | free exchange of gooods and services |
| Self-interest | the impulse that encourages people to forfill their wants or needs |
| incentive | something that encourages you to behave in a perticular way |
| Mixed Economy | combines elemnts of traditional, market, and command economic models |
| Authorian Socialism | an economic system in which the gov. owns or controls nearly all factors of production |
| Communism | gov. owns or controls nearly all factors of production |
| Capitalism | a market/based economic system in which individuals own and control the factors of production |
| Democratic Socialism | economic system in which some means of producing and distributing goods are owned or controled by elected gov. |