Professional Documents
Culture Documents
are
produced
HOW?
Mixed Economy
Mixed economic system is a combination
of capitalism and communism. There are
mixtures of private decision making and
the private decisions exist alongside the
centralised controls of state legislation and
economic plans.
UK is a very good examle.
Efficiency
Productive efficiency
Allocative efficiency
2. Equity
Equity simply mean equality. Equity
relates to fairness and social justice.
Equity is also divided into two groups:
Horizontal equity
Vertical equity
3. Environment
Compounding the two way trade-off between
efficiency and equity is the environment. The
agenda of sustainability has significantly raised
its profile.
In economics, environmental goods and services
are often discussed as a means of highlighting
common problems of resource allocation
regardless of the system. The explanation relies
upon distinguishing between two categories of
costs:
private costs
external costs