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The concept and types of economic system
The economic system is a set of methods for organizing economic and economic processes occurring in society: the production of material goods and their distribution, consumption, use of the state's natural resources and so on. In turn, the types of economic system
Types of economic system: traditional economy
This is historically the earliest and most primitive form of management. Such societies are deeply taboo and traditional. And it is precisely traditions that determine the main economic issues: how much and what to produce, for whom, and how to use it in production, what incentive and coercion system will be, and how to distribute the final product among members of society. Such economies are accompanied by archaic, backward technologies, the widespread use of manual labor, and the conservatism of society with respect to any innovations. In addition to historical examples, this type of management is present in a number of modern underdeveloped countries.
Administrative-command type of economic system
Types of economic system: free market
Mixed type of economic system
This is a kind of legacy left by the two previous types, and some of their consensus. In the most progressive states of today, it is the mixed system that operates in its different versions: the United States, Japan and most of the EU countries. It allows the operation of the free market. At the same time, the state, using its fruits, retains significant levers of influence on the state economy. Thus, the shortcomings of the two previous systems are smoothed out.
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