What should be produced?
Free markets answer this question via the market mechanism (Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand"). Firms produce what consumers are willing and able to pay for.
How should it be produced?
One method is specialization -- production according to comparative advantage (the lower opportunity cost, not the lower resource cost).
For whom is it produced?
That is, how is it distributed? In free markets, only those who are willing and able to pay will receive what is produced. In centrally-planned economies, goods and services that are produced might be distributed differently, such as according to need.
Societies answer the three economic questions based on their values!
What to produce, how to produce it, and who to produce it for (the 3 economic questions) are answered primarily by private companies in the U.S. Rarely does the government intervene in private sector production.
According to how the three basic economic questions are answered.
Economists also study how economic systems address three basic questions: What shall we produce?; How shall we produce it?; For whom shall we produce it?
The 3 basic questions in economics are: What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?
Societies answer the three economic questions based on their values!
What to produce, how to produce it, and who to produce it for (the 3 economic questions) are answered primarily by private companies in the U.S. Rarely does the government intervene in private sector production.
According to how the three basic economic questions are answered.
Economists also study how economic systems address three basic questions: What shall we produce?; How shall we produce it?; For whom shall we produce it?
The 3 basic questions in economics are: What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?
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Each system represents different answers to the four basic economic questions.
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