{"id":210580,"date":"2018-09-14T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/eco-203-week-1-dq-2-role-of-government\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:49:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:49:05","slug":"eco-203-week-1-dq-2-role-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-203-week-1-dq-2-role-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 2 Role of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Role of Government-Discussion 2\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\tEconomics is the study of how society chooses to allocate its scarce productive resources (labor, capital, land, entrepreneurial talent).\u00a0\tIn a mixed economy, elements of both central planning and market allocation of resources are used in allocating productive resources.\u00a0 The United States economy is a mixed economy, with a bias towards market allocation of resources.\u00a0 This means most resources are allocated in the private sector by way of markets.\tDiscuss whether you favor a larger or smaller role of government in the economy.\u00a0 Refer to concepts found in the reading to support your opinion.\tReference: Chapter 2: Markets, Governments, and Nations:\u00a0 The Organization of Economic Activity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role of Government-Discussion 2 \u00a0 Economics is the study of how society chooses to allocate its scarce productive resources (labor, capital, land, entrepreneurial talent).\u00a0 In a mixed economy, elements of both central planning and market allocation of resources are used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-203-week-1-dq-2-role-of-government\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}