Answer to Question 1
Economy:the social institution that organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Politics:the social institution that guides a society's decision making about how to live.
Political economy:the closely linked economic and political life of a nation or world region.
Answer to Question 2
According to the Scottish economist Adam Smith, the pursuit of self-interest has widespread benefits because as people are guided by their self-interest, an economy ends up producing the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Karl Marx claimed that capitalism's private ownership of productive property is what creates unequal social classes. By putting the means of production (such as factories and other productive property) in private hands, the capitalist economy serves the interests of these owners.
Table 6.1 illustrates the main regime types and their differences. It breaks the regimes into four
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Demographic change and the effect on people social, and economic life
Social Networks
Excessive video gaming decrease social and physical development in a child