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EX500rider

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44. "there are other economic systems"

Reply to Farmer-Rick (Reply #32)

Sat Apr 30, 2022, 03:29 PM

Apr 2022

Yet none that work as well.

Your basic choices are:

Market economy ("hands off" systems, such as laissez-faire capitalism)
Mixed economy (a hybrid that blends some aspects of both market and planned economies)
Planned economy ("hands on" systems, such as state socialism, also known as "command economy" when referring to the Soviet model)

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"Our government had already figured out how to do it." EX500rider Apr 2022 #29

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"there are other economic systems" EX500rider Apr 2022 #44

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