A national planning ministry assigns factories their output quotas, sets official prices, and tells stores where goods must be shipped. Is this a market, command, or mixed economy?

Family-owned restaurants choose their menus and prices, and customers decide which ones stay open by buying meals. Is this a market, command, or mixed economy?

Private farms sell crops for profit, but the government pays crop-insurance subsidies and enforces food-safety rules. Is this a market, command, or mixed economy?

A state-owned car industry receives a five-year plan: how many cars to build, which inputs to use, and what wage each worker earns. Is this market, command, or mixed?

A country privatizes most clothing stores, removes production quotas, and lets prices rise or fall with demand. Toward which system has it moved?

Private electric companies sell power, but state commissions set service rules and pollution laws limit emissions. Is this closest to market, command, or mixed?

Economists say every society must answer three basic economic questions. What are they?

In a pure command economy, who answers what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce?

In a pure market economy, who mainly answers the basic economic questions?

When higher sneaker prices attract more firms to make sneakers, what is answering the question of what to produce?

Compared with a command economy, how does a market economy usually limit government's economic role?

In a command economy, what is the government's central economic role?

Congress authorizes agencies to block mergers that would reduce competition, while firms still decide what to sell. What role is the government playing?

A city uses tax revenue to install streetlights because no company can easily charge only the people who benefit from them. What economic role is the city playing?

A ministry orders every shoe factory to make a fixed number of shoes, use assigned leather, and sell at one official price. What role is the government playing?

The United States has private enterprise, but government also taxes, spends, regulates, and provides services. What does that combination make the U.S. economy?

USPS is a federal establishment, yet it generally relies on selling postage and services instead of tax dollars for operating expenses. Where does this fit?

Social Security uses payroll taxes to fund benefits, while many Americans also use private retirement savings. On the market-command spectrum, this is best read as what?

The FDA reviews drug safety and oversees food safety, but drug and food companies remain private firms. What does this U.S. arrangement show?

FAFSA can connect students to federal grants, work-study, and loans, while colleges may be public or private. What role does this place on the spectrum?