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Advantages Of Mixed Economy

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In these societies there usually isn’t a governing body per say. The elders are typically the ones to lay down the law as they have been taught by their elders and so on and so forth. They are referred to as elders, the council, the leaders, the royal family (king and queen), church elders, pastors, and varies other titles depending on the community and its heritage.
Advantages:
- Traditional economies often provide economic security.
- The community works together. Everyone plays an equally important role in traditional economy.
- Traditional economies also tend to be sustainable because they grow slowly. People come together and work for survival not profit.
- This economic system isn’t destructive to the environment. The natural land is …show more content…

However, the more holistic theory of the mixed economy developed by W. Sombart only in the 1920ies of 20th century. In the works he equated socialism with all forms of increasing the role of the public sector in the capitalistic economy and increasing government intervention in the economy, which gave him reason to talk about the emergence of a mixed economy (Hansen 2003). After World War II, active supporters of the theory of the mixed economy were bourgeois economists E. Hansen, J. Clark, P. Samuelson, J. K. Galbraith, Jan Tinbergen and others (Strachey 1956). They believed the establishment of a mixed economy is due to the fact that in advanced capitalist countries, state and private institutions subordinate its activities to the welfare of society, and, in addition, the economic and social activities to the welfare of society, and, in addition, the economic social activities of the state gradually eliminate the contradictions of capitalism, creating opportunities for economic development and crises-free economy provides a higher rate of growth. P. Samuelson, defined the American economy as “a mixed system of free enterprise, economic control, which is carried by both the state and private

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