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Chapter 5: Traditional, Command, and Market Economies — Economics 101

Every society must answer three economic questions — what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom. The three pure answers are tradition (do as our ancestors did), command (a central authority decides), and markets (let individual buyers and sellers decide). Each has a track record. Pure forms barely exist; almost every modern economy is a hybrid.