Economics Chapter 2: Section 1-2 
  
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            economic systems 
          
        
           the way a society uses resources to satisfy its people's wants 
        
      
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            tradional economy 
          
        
           an economic system in which people produce and distribute goods according to the customs hannded down form generation to generation 
        
      
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            command economy 
          
        
          an economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions 
        
      
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            market economy 
          
        
          an economic system in which individuals choice and voluntary exchange direct econmic decisions 
        
      
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            central pplanning economy 
          
        
          a system in which central government officals make all economic decisions 
        
      
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            socialism 
          
        
          an economic system ins which the government owns some or all of the factors of production 
        
      
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            communism 
          
        
          an economic system in which the government owns all the factors of production and there is little or no political freedom