SS.912.E.1.3

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Compare how the various economic systems (traditional, market, command, mixed) answer the questions: (1) What to produce?; (2) How to produce?; and (3) For whom to produce?
General Information
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Economics
Standard: Understand the fundamental concepts relevant to the development of a market economy.
Date Adopted or Revised: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved

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SS.912.E.1.AP.3: Identify differences in the major characteristics of the market, command, and mixed economic systems and how they answer: (1) What to produce? (2) How to produce? And (3) For whom to produce?

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