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The American economic system is organized around a basically private enterprise. It’s (36) economy in which consumers determine what shall be produced by spending their money for those goods and services. Private businessmen, (37) to make their profits, produce these goods and services in (38) with other businessmen, and the profit (39) , operating under competitive pressures, largely (40) how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, (41) with the desire of businessmen to gain more profits and the desire of individuals to (42) their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how (43) are used to produce it.
If, on the other hand, (44) , which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers. If the product is in short reply relative to the demand, the price will be a bit up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. (45) . Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in ’the American economic system.
The important factor in a private-oriented economy is that individuals are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, (46) . including determining the price or making a free contract.