An economic system is a mechanism (social institution) which deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in a particular society.
The economic system is composed of people, institutions and their relationships. It addresses the problems of economics, like the allocation and scarcity of resources.
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An Economic System Out of Control - Article based on David C. Korten's 'When Corporations Rule the World'.
Comparative Economic Systems Course - A University of Nevada course. Provides an overview of the subject, books, links, and lecture notes.
Comparative Economic Systems Web Resources - Accompanies a Comparative Economic Systems textbook.
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Josef Hasslberger Page of Economics - Articles inspired by the natural economic order of Silvio Gesell, which concerns money without interest or inflation.
Money's Worth - A brief description of a new approach to Macroeconomics using energy consumption as the basis for GDP accounting.
Post-Autistic Economics Network - Offers free subscriptions to the Post-Autistic Economics Review and over 100 articles about the post-autistic economics movement.
Progressive Utilization Theory - Integrates economic democracy and spiritual values-an answer to capitalism and communism.
Socio-economics of Space - Research initiative headed by Gernot Grabher. Includes info on research, publications and teaching.
Using Cows to Model Economic Systems - Humor.
WebEc - Economic Systems - Contains links to, and descriptions of, WWW resources related to Economic Systems.
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What Is an Economy For? - Atlantic Monthly article which deconstructs some of the differences between the Asian, American and European economic systems.
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