Significance Flashcards
significance
first mover advantage, early warning signal, customer focus, strategy formulation, image building, directing growth
Features of capitalism
private property, large scale production, profit institution, competition, price mechanism, wage institution, market economy
merits
high level of production, products of high quality at low costs, growth and prosperity, max welfar, opt utilisation of resources, flexible system
demerits
leads to monopoly, inequality, depression and unemployment, inefficient production, class conflict,
features of socialism
social ownership, social welfare, central planning, equality of income and opportunity, classless society
merits
greater economic efficiency, greater welfare due to less inequality, absence of monopoly
demerits
fixed occupation, bureaucratic, misallocation of resources
features of communism
highest class, communist party, rigid rules and regulation, no freedom of speech, government control prices for labour, government ownership
merits
people are equal every citizen can keep a job internally stable economics system no competition efficient distribution of resources
demerits
government rule no freedom of speech customer needs are not taken into consideration no balance between demand and supply
mixed economy feature
coexistents of public and private sectors individual freedom economic welfare economic planning price mechanism government intervention
merits
economic development optimum utilisation of resources balance between private and public sectors economic planning
demerits
non corporation between the two sectors in efficient public sector in efficient planning and the angels freedom
objectives of industrial policy
to correct imbalances to regulate flow of resource to ensure maximum utilisation of resources to monitor private industry to ensure equal wealth distribution to control foreign capital
importance
establishes coordination direct National resources helps in industrial development proper control promotes export