Command (or Planned) Economies
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All economies need to answer the three basic questions which result from the fact of scarcity:
- What to produce
- How to produce
- For whom to produce
For a planned economy, we need to research the following:
a) How it works – how does it answer the three basic questions above?
b) Advantages of this economic system
c) Disadvantages of this economic system
d) Examples covering the three above points
Some useful ‘starting point’ web sites follow:
Wikipedia on Planned Economies
enotes.com on Planned Economies
Fact Archive on Planned Economies (probably from various sources)
BBC News on North Korea (one of the last planned economies?)
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