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Understanding Mixed Economies: Balancing Market Freedom and Government Intervention

Mixed economies combine elements of free market and government intervention to meet societal needs while ensuring economic freedom. In a mixed economy, the government does not fully control the market but intervenes in areas such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure to support all members of society. The U.S. exemplifies this balance, promoting private property and competition while providing essential services. Countries like China are transitioning towards more market-based systems, indicating the evolving landscape of economic systems worldwide.

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Understanding Mixed Economies: Balancing Market Freedom and Government Intervention

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  1. Mixed Economies

  2. The Rise of Mixed Economies • Laissez Faire- Government generally should not intervene in the marketplace. • Some needs that markets could meet fall to governments so that all members of society can participate. • Education • Healthcare • Mass transit • Private Property- Property that is owned by individuals or companies, not by the govnt or people as a whole • Constitution protects this fundamental right

  3. Governments create laws protecting property rights and enforcing contracts. • Patent Laws • laws insisting on competition • Some goals are better met by the open market and some better met by the government. • Opportunity Cost (what are you willing to give up?) • Pay taxes to fund the Army? • To give money to people without jobs? • Give all people an education? • To subsidize farms? • Should government make minimum wage?

  4. PHYSICAL FLOW Monetary Flow Govnt Purchases TAXES Firms Households GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES EXPENDITURES TAXES Govnt Owned Factories Monetary Flow PHYSICAL FLOW

  5. Mixed Economies (govnt dominates) • The foundation of the U.S. economy is the free market. • Free Enterprise- An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods. • Investments are determined by private decision rather than by state control • China is in a transition (a period of change in which an economy moves away from central planning toward a market-based system. • To make this transitions, state firms must be privatized (sold to individuals) and allowed to compete with one another in the marketplace.

  6. Mixed Economies- Market Dominates • Hong Kong- one of the world’s freest markets. • United States has a free enterprise economy, but the government still intervenes to keep order, provide vital services, and to promote the general welfare. • We enjoy a high level of economic freedom! • U.S. law protects private property • We have a low level of government intervention • Foreign investment encouraged • Free trade encouraged (U.S. protects some domestic industries and retaliates against trade restrictions imposed by other nations.) • Banking industry operates under relatively few restrictions • Foreign owned banks have few additional restrictions.

  7. CONTINUUM OF MIXED ECONOMIES CONTINUUM- a range with no clear divisions UNITED KINGDOM IRAN MEXICO FRANCE HONG KONG NORTH KOREA CHINA SOUTH AFRICA CANADA SINGAPORE CUBA RUSSIA POLAND JAPAN UNITED STATES

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