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economic system

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the way in which society decides what goods to produce, how to produce them, and for whom goods will be produced

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free enterprise

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economic system in which individuals (not government) own most, if not all, the resources and control their use. Government plays only a small part in the economy

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socialism

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economic system in which government controls and may own many of the resources

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economic plan

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government program specifying economic activities, such as what goods are to be produced and what prices will be charged

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income distribution

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the way all the income earned in a country is divided among different groups of income earners

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mixed economy

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economy that s neither purely capitalist nor purely socialist. Has both elements

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traditional economy

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economic system in which the answers to the three economic questions are based on customs, traditions, and cultural beliefs

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vision

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a sense of how the world works

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labor theory of value

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belief that all value in produced goods is derived from labor

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surplus value

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difference between total value of production and the subsistence wages paid to workers.

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globalization

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phenomenon by which economic agents in any given part of the world are affected by events elsewhere in the world. Trend towards single unified global economy.

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offshoring

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term used to describe work done for a company by persons other than the original company’s employees in a country other than the one in which the company is located