Economic And Governmnet Test Review Flashcards
What are the three economic systems?
Market, traditional, and command
What are the three basic questions that every economic system must answer?
What product/service will be produced? How will it be made? Who will consume/ buy it?
How do traditional economies exchange goods?
Through bartering
Which country is closest to a true Market economy?
The United States
In this system, your parents were peanut farmers, so now you have to be a peanut farmer too.
Traditional
A literate is someone who can…
Read and write
What does “literacy rate” mean?
Percentage of people who can read and write over 15.
Why do you think it’s this way?
Because they invested in human capital.
What is a standard of living?
How well- off a country’s population is
Describe the cycle of poverty.
If one a community hits poverty and take generations to recover/get out of poverty