1. What is Economics?
Economics is not just money. It's businesses and how they work. It's lemonade stands and how many dollars they take in. It's toy collecting and baseball card collections. It's taxes and allowances. It's stocks and bonds. Economics is part of almost everything you could ever think about.

2. Compare how traditional, command, and market, economies answer the 3 economic questions of:
What to produce?
For whom to produce?
How to produce?

3. Copy this graphic organizer on your paper
Economic Systems
Traditional
Market
Command

4. Command Economic System
A command economy, also called planned economy, is directly controlled by the government. The state owns all property and controls all resources including land, labor, and capital. Allocations of resources, supply, wages and price are regulated by the government. Although health, education, and transportation are available to all for little to no cost, there is little incentive for people to work hard. As a result, production levels are barely met and products that are produced are usually of poor quality.

5. Compare how traditional, command, and market, economies answer the 3 economic questions of:
What to produce?
For whom to produce?
How to produce?

6. Traditional Economic System
A system in which social roles and culture determine how goods are made, sold, and bought. Families, clans, or tribes follow certain customs that have been handed down from one generation to the next to satisfy their basic needs (children often grow up to perform the same work as their parents). In the past, societies had elders who decided when and how to plant crops, hunt, or move to another place. Leaders would receive goods as tribute and they would in turn give those goods to those who needed them.

7. Compare how traditional, command, and market, economies answer the 3 economic questions of:
What to produce?
For whom to produce?
How to produce?

8. Market Economic Systems
Based on individual choices and voluntary trade.
In a market economic system, or free enterprise system, individuals and businesses make economic decisions. People can choose to enter into business, or they may sell their labor to anyone they want, and customers are free to spend their money as they wish. In such a system, the market determines prices and wages (Laws of Supply and Demand).

9. Compare how traditional, command, and market, economies answer the 3 economic questions of:
What to produce?
For whom to produce?
How to produce?

10. Command Economy Market Economy Traditional Economy
People can own and
Operate a business
With little to no
Government interference
Society or culture
determine what is
produced and sold.
Government controls
production, wages
and prices
People have no say
as to what the
Government does.
Laws of supply and
demand determine
production, wages,
and prices.
Children usually
follow in the
occupation of
their family
members.
Both buyers and sellers
play a part in deciding
what will be available
for sale and how
much it will cost.

11. Availability of Supplies
Supply and Demand
Definition: Producers supply goods and services and consumers demand them.  Prices in the market are determined by supply and demand.
What to Produce?
Availability of Supplies
The law of DEMAND says that as the cost of something increases, people will demand (or buy) less. The opposite is also true ... if the cost of something decreases, people will demand (or buy) more.
The law of SUPPLY says that as the price of something increases, producers will produce or offer more. The opposite is also true ... if the price of something decreases, producers will produce or offer less.
Merchants
Customers
Profit Margin
Cost of Production

12. Mixed Economic System
An economic system that allows for the simultaneous operation of publicly and privately owned. Economy in which both market forces and government intervention and direction are used to determine resource allocation and prices. The U.S. Economy is a mixed economy; while it relies to a great extent upon markets, government also regulates some of the private economy.
Since no country has a pure command or pure market economic system, all economies combine aspects of both.

13. Explain how most countries have a mixed economy located on a continuum between pure market and pure command.
There is no pure market economy, because the government regulates some things, like safety, work hours, wages, etc…

14. Compare and contrast the basic types of economic systems found in:
Brazil
Canada
Cuba

15. Canada Mixed Economic System
As an affluent, high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class, Canada resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and affluent/high living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban.
Mixed Economic System

16. Command Economic System
Cuba
The government continues to balance the need for economic loosening against a desire for firm political control. It has rolled back limited reforms undertaken in the 1990s to increase enterprise efficiency and alleviate serious shortages of food, consumer goods, and services. The average Cuban's standard of living remains at a lower level than before the 1990s, which was caused by the loss of Soviet aid. Since late 2000, Venezuela has been providing oil on preferential terms. Cuba has been paying for the oil, in part, with the services of Cuban personnel in Venezuela, including some 20,000 medical professionals. In 2007, high metals prices continued to boost Cuban earnings from nickel and cobalt production. Havana continued to invest in the country's energy sector to mitigate electrical blackouts that had plagued the country since 2004.
Command Economic System

17. Market Economy based on farming and agriculture
Brazil
Characterized by large and well-developed agricultural, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors, Brazil's economy outweighs that of all other South American countries and is expanding its presence in world markets. Having weathered financial turmoil, capital inflows are regaining strength and the currency has resumed appreciating. The appreciation has slowed export volume growth, but since 2004, Brazil's growth has yielded increases in employment and real wages.
Market Economy based on farming and agriculture

18. Economic Systems
Pure
Command
Pure Market
Mixed Economy

19. 100 Economic Systems Canada 81% Brazil 57% Cuba 28% Pure Market Pure
6th Grade- This information is meant to be used in conjunction with the 6th and 7th grade Teacher Notes. For additional resources, go to GeorgiaStandards.org. (Note: This is not an expectation for students to memorize numbers, but to understand that factors that influence specific countries to move more towards a command or market economy). The numbering system is based on The Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Index 2009 The Heritage Foundation is a conservative organization that has partnered with the Wall Street Journal for over a decade to evaluate each country based on a set of 10 criteria to determine economic freedom. Update information using resources listed in the Teacher Notes.
100
Pure
Command
Pure Market
Mixed Economy

20. Economics How many basic types of economic systems are there?
Name the economic systems.
Which economic system do most textbooks say is the most common throughout the world?

21. Economics How many basic types of economic systems are there? 3
Name the economic systems. Traditional, Command, Market
Which economic system do most textbooks say is the most common throughout the world? Mixed. The GCEE states that mixed is not an economic system but rather a blending of two different types of systems.

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