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Free enterprise
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what?
- capitalism
- all resources privatly owned
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how it works
- manufacturers react to consumer's needs and wants
- minimum amount of factors of production
- those who supply factors of production get the benefit
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Pro
- competitive
- effient use of resources
- choice
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con
- uneven distribution of wealth
- exploitation of labour
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social costs
- destruction of landscape
- air polution
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Centrally planned system
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What?
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public ownership
- resources
- production
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how it works
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government controls
- economic activity
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Central planners
- allocate resources for goods
- fix quantities
- set price
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pros
- economic dev can be achieved faster
- government can begin heavy industry
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cons
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planners cannot predict consumers' needs and wants
- shortages
- Soviet Union
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workers' motivation reduced
- lower output per person
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Mixed economies
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Government gets involved
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Indicative planning
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negotiates with
- trade unions
- industry reps
- employer reps
- unemployed reps
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some results
- nationsl wage agreements
- plans for economic dev
- eg
- Towards 2016
- national dev plan
- transport 21
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Fiscal policy
- taxation
- government spending
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monetary policy
- interest rates
- borrowing
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controlled
- european central bank
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implemented
- central bank