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Econ Ch 3

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Economic System   System of rules, laws, methods put in place by society to answer the fundamental questions (what, how, whom to produce)  
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Government method   Decision making unit that has right to force or use involuntarily means in interactions with society  
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Market method   Collection of all buyers/sellers of a good who voluntary interact  
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Socialism   Econ. system based on gov, public ownership, or control of the factors of production (capitalism)  
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Capitalism   Econ. system based on private ownership of factors of production (free market)  
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Mixed economy   Blends elements of both socialism/capitalism  
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Private property/ownership of property/FOP consist of:   Right of control and exclusive rule, right to acquire or transfer property, right of restriction for damages to one's property  
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Property   External things subject to ownership (cars/stocks)  
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Natural rights   Exists by natural law, states cannot touch  
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Natural Law   belief that rights inherent in human nature and discoverable w/o revelation  
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John Locke   Everyone owns themself by natural right  
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Property rights derive from?   Self ownership  
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Original acquistion   Mixing labor with unowned property makes it yours  
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Voluntary transfer   How to acquire property not through original acquisition but through voluntary methods  
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Social justice and equality   Belief in equality of humans, if unequal, there's a social wrong  
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Theory of exploition   Diff. between rich/poor is due to capitalist exploition of working class  
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Equality   Two competing meaning in social discourse (leads to competing views in society)  
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Equality of results or condition (equality before the law)   All are entitled to equal rights, does not require material equity  
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Positive rights   Oblige action, rights a person has to certain amounts of goods, others must provide for you as their duty  
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Negative rights   Oblige interaction, rights to be free from external intervention, can't force anyone to share, must interact on voluntary basis, others owe you duty of non interference  
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Gov should enforce...?   Contracts equally  
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Exploition   One treats another unfairly to benefit oneself  
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How do capitalists feel about marx's assertion?   Reject it  
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Marx's view   Capitalists exploit workers, parasitic, takes and gives nothing  
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Capitalist's view   Symbiotic  
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Expropriations   Also nationalization, gov takes property w/o compensation  
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Collectivized Property   Seized Property  
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Welfare State   Gov provides goods/services to pop.  
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Redistribution of income   Through gov programs/taxation  
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Regulation   Gov makes rules for private sector to follow  
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How is econonmic freedom measured?   Index, gov spending percentage of GDP  
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Index   Measures specific functions  
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