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Summary Economics: A Southern African Context, 3e - EKN110 - Chapter 2

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This is an in depth summary of Chapter 2 in the textbook: Economics: A Southern African Context, 3e . These notes describe and explain the different economic systems and how they work. It is in an easy to understand layout and includes a side by side comparison of each system. The five fundamental questions of the market system are also included.

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, KEY CONCEDTS

· economic system
invisible hand

·
laissez-faire capitalism ·
competition
markets
·
market
emerging
· command system ·
specialization
· market system division of labour

·


private property ·

money

freedom of enterprise
·
consumer
sovereignity
·
rand votes


·freedomofche
enter
·
creative destruction




ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

·
economic a
particular set of institutional
arrangements and a
co-ordinating mechanism to
respond to the problem of scarcity
&
system
What
goods are produced
↳ economic systems * 4
major role
players
determine : ~
How they are produced in economic system
- who
gets goods 1) Households
& now to accommodate
change 2) Business enterprise
How to 3) gout .




Promote technological 4) foreign sector
progress

-Wingoutinterventionenomic


S
Laissez-faire Capitalism activities
how do economic systems differ :
>
-
Types Command system -
gout have full control over economic
1) who owns factors of production
activities
I co-ordinate
I



methods used to economic
What
2) are

Market system/ activity
mixed economies




Laissez-faire Capitalism
↓
· also called pure capitalism
protecting private property
·

government's role is limited Best.
to a
legal
environment in which ppl interact in markets to


A closed economic buy + sell goods
circular flow
diagram ·
products flow from firms households

* Product Firms receive revenue from households
Market


expenditure on
goods + services firms receive income * Resource ·
resources flow from households >
- firms
A
Product Market from
households receive income firms
MarketB
·




goodsentices
services
consume supply goods +
&

gout
goutexpendit
.
a
consume
S
①
g+ *


gorservices gov
*
ervices Gout Intervention = limited
Households Firms
.

D
Government
D *
Pa pay taxes welfare
axes ⑭ believe that govt interference >
-
reduces human


goutivea
*
·
.




goinditure ) be
↳ corrupt Cuse economic resource to benefit themselves)
on factors govt .
=




utilization ora factors
⑤

supply production Resource Prevent individuals + firms from coering a
factors : Gout . Only -
A
Market role is to
# ensure mutually benefical economic activities
Income expenditure on
negociated
received
are

Production factors

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J. van Rensburg, Campbell McConnell, Stanley Brue, Sean Flynn EBOOK: Economics: A Southern African Context, 3e
Publisher: 2021 ISBN: 9781526848734 Edition: Unknown

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