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TheBusiness
BusinessSystem:
System:Government,
Government,
MarketsAnd
and International
International Trade
Trade
Markets
Dr. Keith Y.N. Ng
Ph.D., MBA, MCIM
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Globalization
Globalization
Threats
Issues
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Economic System
Economic Systems
The economic system accomplishes
two basic economic task:
The task of producing goods and services,
which requires determining what will be
produced, how it will be produced and
who will produce it.
The task of distributing these goods and
services among its members which
requires determining who will get what
and how much each will get.
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Economic Systems
To accomplish these two tasks,
economic system rely on three
kinds of social devices:
Tradition-based societies
Command economy
Market economy
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Economic Systems
Tradition-Based Societies
Small and rely on traditional communal
roles and customs to carry out the two
basic economic tasks.
Individuals
are
motivated
by
the
communitys expression of approval or
disapproval
and
the
communitys
productive resources - such as its herds
are owned in common:
e.g. wife shall cook, husband shall work, etc.
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Economic Systems
Command Economy
Based primarily on a government authority (a
person or a group) making the economic
decisions about what is to be produced, who
will produce it and who will get it.
Productive resources such as land and
factories are owned or controlled by
government and are considered belong to the
public.
e.g. China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, former
Soviet Union run their economies primarily on the
basis of commands.
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Economic Systems
Market Economy
An economic system based primarily
on private individuals making the
main decisions about what they will
produce and who will get it.
Productive resources like land and
factories are owned and managed by
private individuals.
Essentially on Supply and Demand
e.g. England in 19th century
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Economic Systems
Mixed Economy
An economic system
consisting the elements of the
three economic systems:
Tradition-based societies
Command economy
Market economy
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Free Markets
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Issues Today
Arguments for and against free markets
within a nation
Arguments for and against free trade
between nations
Ideology is a system of normative beliefs
shared by members of some social group.
John Locke
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Karl Marx
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moral rights)
utilitarian principles)
utilitarian principles)
justice principles)
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Lockean Rights
The right to life, liberty and property
Individuals have an absolute right to do whatever
they want with their property and the government
has no right to interfere with or confiscate an
individuals private property even for the good of
society (Fifth Amendment of US Constitution)
e.g. Land Acquisition Act
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During
1970s,
Keynesian
remedy
for
unemployment
(increased
government
spending) had the expected efect of creating
increasing inflation but did not cure
unemployment.
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Alienation
In Marxs view capitalism alienates the
lower working classes by not allowing them
to develop their productive potential nor to
satisfy their real human needs nor to form
satisfying human relationship.
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Alienation
According to Marx, capitalist economies alienate
workers in four ways:1.
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Alienation
Private property and free markets
leads to alienation, which is unjust and
in conflict with the demands of caring.
So common property institutions
should
be
established
instead.
Productive society can still be the
result because the desire to be
productive is an instinct.
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Economic Substructure
Consists of the materials and social
controls that society uses to produce
its economic goods.
Marx refers to the materials (land,
labor, natural resources, machinery,
energy,
technology)
used
in
production
as
the
forces
of
production.
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Economic Substructure
Marx called the social controls used in
producing goods (i.e. the social controls
by which society organizes and controls
its workers) the relations of production.
Two main types of relations of production:
Control based on ownership of the
materials used to produce goods
Control based on authority to command
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Economic Substructure
In modern industrial society, capitalist
owners control their factory laborers
because:
The capitalist own the machinery on
which laborers must work if they are to
survive.
Laborers must enter a wage contract by
which they give the owner (or manager)
the legal authority to command.
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Social Superstructure
Consists of its government and its popular
ideologies.
Marx claim that the ruling class created by the
economic substructure inevitably controls this
superstructure.
The members of the ruling class will control
the government and use it to protect their
position and prosperity and will popularize
ideologies that justify their position of
privilege.
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Social Superstructure
According to Marx:
Societys government and its ideologies are designed
to protect the interests of its ruling economic classes.
These classes are created by the societys underlying
relations of production.
These relations of productions, in turn, are determined
by the underlying forces of production.
Marx claimed all major historical changes are
ultimately produced by the changes in societys forces
of production.
Historical materialism: the Marxist view of history as
determined by changes in economic methods by which
humanity produces the materials on which it must live.
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Immiseration of workers
Immiseration of workers
Capitalism produces the combined
efects of increased concentration of
industrial power, cyclic crises due to
an over supply of goods, rising
unemployment,
and
declining
relative compensation.
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Mixed Economy
The debate for/against free markets, free trade and
private property has been spurred on by recent world
events:
The collapse of several communist regimes such as
former Soviet Union; and
The emergence of strong competitors in several Asian
nations, such as China, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan.
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Mixed Economy
Mixed economy
An economy that retains a market and private property
system but relies heavily on government policies to
remedy their deficiencies.
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Mixed Economy
Monopolies
are
regulated,
nationalized or outlawed.
Sweden,
Germany,
Denmark,
Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium,
Norway, Finland, Switzerland are
all mixed economies with high
levels of government intervention.
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not
require
the
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