Economic Systems: structural walkthrough

Section role: supports the 'Decoding Economic Systems' section while the teacher transitions from the island survival group activity to formalizing economic theory. Slides: (1) Title — 'Decoding Economic Systems'; (2) Connecting Island Groups — bullets: mapping Group A to command, Group B to market, Group C to traditional; (3) Traditional Economy — definition, generational continuity, examples like indigenous agricultural communities; (4) Command Economy — definition, central planning, historical and modern examples like North Korea; (5) Market Economy — definition, consumer sovereignty, profit motive; (6) Mixed Economy — definition, spectrum between market and command, role of government intervention; (7) Macroeconomic Indicators — bullets: using GDP and inflation to measure system success; (8) Global Spectrum — placing the US, China, and North Korea along the market-command continuum. Closing slide: 'Where do you think a fully digital, decentralized economy sits on this spectrum?' — sets up the individual classification check section that follows.

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