Economic Decisions And Systems

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      • Moving to a city…
      • Problem: What do I want to do after high school?
      • Choices: College or Job
      • College Advantage
      • Better education
      • More jobs open up
      • Qualify for a better paying job
      • Job Advantage
      • Make money
      • Pay for college later on
      • Choice- College
      • Act- Go to a college
      • Review- think about if I was at a job instead
      • College Disadvantage
      • Expensive
      • Not much time for a job
      • Job Disadvantage
      • No further education right out of high school
      • Less jobs available
      • Problem: How should I get to Florida?
      • Choices: drive or fly
      • Driving Advantage
      • Saves money
      • Have your car in FL
      • Can stop along the way
      • Flying Advantage
      • Much faster
      • More convenient
      • Choice- Fly
      • Act- Fly to Florida
      • Review- think about if I was driving instead
      • Driving Disadvantage
      • Takes much longer
      • Not convenient
      • Have to stop for food
      • Flying Disadvantage
      • Can’t stop anywhere else on the way
      • In a command economy, the resources are owned and controlled by the gov’t.
      • Example- China
      • Advantage- everything is under control.
      • Disadvantage- personal economic freedon is limited.
      • A market economy is an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices.
      • Example- Canada
      • Advantage- growth and efficiency
      • Disadvantage- can be hazardous for economies like India and China
      • Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of capital .
      • Example- United States
      • Advantage- the government has limited control over business, which lets business compete.
      • Disadvantage- barriers between people in terms of how much wealth they have or how much money they make.
      • Communism is a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
      • Example- China
      • Advantage- don’t have to worry too much about different classes of wealth
      • Disadvantage- do not have a lot of freedom at all.
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