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Chapter 2: Economic Systems Section 2

Slide 2 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 Objectives 1.Explain why markets exist. 2.Analyze a circular flow model of a free market economy. 3.Describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace. 4.Identify the advantages of a free market economy.

Slide 3 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 Introduction –A free market economy is characterized by: Households and firms Factor and product markets Self-interest Competition Economic freedom, efficiency, and equity

Slide 4 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 Specialization Rather than being self-sufficient, each of us specializes in a few products or services. –Specialization leads to efficiency

Slide 5 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 Circular Flow Model of a Market Economy

Slide 6 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 Factor and Product Markets DO NOT WRITE: In an arena of exchange known as the factor market, firms purchase factors of production, such as renting land, hiring and paying workers, and borrowing money, from households. The arena in which households buy the goods and services that firms produce is called the product market.

Slide 7 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 What are Incentives?

Slide 8 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 Competition –Do not write –Firms seek to make higher profits by increasing sales. –Because of competition among other firms, though, increasing sales is not always possible. –Self-interest and competition work together to regulate the marketplace. –Smith called this self-regulating mechanism “the invisible hand of the marketplace.”

Slide 9 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 Advantages of a Free Market

Slide 10 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 2, Section 2 Advantages, cont. Despite the advantages of a free market economy, no country today operates under a pure, unregulated free market. Why Not?