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Characteristics of Free Enterprise

Characteristics of Free Enterprise. How does Free Enterprise answer the 3 Economic Questions?. What goods will be produced? sellers decide: what are consumers willing and able to purchase? How will these goods be produced? producers decide For whom will the goods be produced?

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Characteristics of Free Enterprise

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  1. Characteristics ofFree Enterprise

  2. How does Free Enterprise answer the 3 Economic Questions? • What goods will be produced? sellers decide: what are consumers willing and able to purchase? • How will these goods be produced? producers decide • For whom will the goods be produced? for those willing and able to buy

  3. 5 Characteristics ofFree Enterprise Systems • private property – any good that is owned by an individual or a business • public property-owned by the government

  4. Choice buyers sellers workers investors ? ? ? 5 Characteristics ofFree Enterprise Systems

  5. 5 Characteristics ofFree Enterprise Systems • Voluntary exchange • people can exchange what they value less for what they value more • people are free to contract and negotiate

  6. 5 Characteristics ofFree Enterprise Systems • Competition • producers compete for consumers by making better products and/or reducing price. • businesses compete for better workers with higher wages • workers compete for jobs by accepting lower wages or by offering better skills

  7. 5 Characteristics ofFree Enterprise Systems • economic incentive • money acts as an incentive • people are inspired to work and create businesses in the hopes of making money. • “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own self-interest” • Adam Smith

  8. Free markets will guide the most efficient and just distribution of goods and services, providing the most benefit to the most people. “the invisible hand” influences the U.S. founders “the invisible hand”- free marketAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - 1776 Adam Smith

  9. Ethics and Free-enterprise 1.Allows for individuals to choose their own occupations. 2.Produces goods/services preferred by both the majority and the minority. 3.Rewards or punishes producers based on how well or poorly they respond to the buying public. 4.Supports the right of the individual to be free. 5.Provides an opportunity for individuals to strengthen and develop their abilities.

  10. RightsImply Responsibilities in a Free-Enterprise System • The right to voluntary exchangeimpliesthe responsibility to provide honest information. • The right to private propertyimpliesthe responsibility to use it in a legal manner. • The right to competeimpliesthe responsibility of sportsmanship.

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