(10) Economics. The student understands the distribution, characteristics, and interactions of the economic systems in the world. The student is expected to:
(A) describe the forces that determine the distribution of goods and services in free enterprise, socialist, and communist economic systems;
(B) classify where specific countries fall along the economic spectrum between free enterprise and communism;
(C) compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services such as subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture or cottage industries versus commercial industries; and
(D) compare global trade patterns over time and examine the implications of globalization, including outsourcing and free trade zones.
