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Advantages And Disadvantages Of An Economic System

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An economic system is comprised of the various processes of organizing and motivating labour, producing, distributing, and circulating of the fruits of human labour, including products and services, consumer goods, machines, tools, and other technology used as inputs to future production, and the infrastructure within and through which production, distribution, and circulation occurs.
Free or Market Economy
Economic system whereby buyers and sellers can make the deals they wish to make without any interference, except by the forces of demand and supply.

All resources are owned by private individuals and private organizations

Advantages -The producers of favoured products receive a large income than producers of less favoured products …show more content…

transfer of council homes to housing associations contracting out Rubbish collections to private co.

Advantages of PFI
• Finances public projects without the need for the government to borrow funds or raises taxes.
• Risk is transferred to the private provider
• Introduces private sector qualities such as efficiency

Disadvantages
• Method of financing is more expensive
• There is a question on how much risk is transferred in the private sector.
• Given the government record of bailing out those companies working for the govt.
• Efficiency savings have been made at the expense of quality deterioration in the service. e.g. hospital cleaning.

Externalities

• An externality occurs when the costs or benefits of an economic action are not borne or received by the instigator.
• Externalities are therefore the spill over effects of production and consumption which affect society as a whole rather than just the individual producer and consumer.
Railway may be good but the noise
• Pricing policies based on social cost
Social Marginal benefit

Use indirect taxes and subsidies where private costs of production are below social costs and an indirect tax could be imposed so that price is raised to reflect the true social cost of

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