Talk:Mixed economy

U.S.A. as example of mixed economy?

Hi, (first sorry about my English) in the article I am surprised that an example of mixed economy is the American economy, sorry, but USA as always been cited as the example of the capitalist system (specially, from USA itself), it always praises privatisations, and any word in favour of regularisation of the market, intervention (or something "worse" nationalisation) and you will be a "communist". The reasons argued aren't entirely true: The U.S. is considered a mixed economy. Some examples of this include:

• Public and private schools are available for children.
• All Americans over the age of 65 are eligible for Medicare, a public health insurance option.

Everyone knows if you want a good/medium education in USA you have to go to private schools, and a lot of people cant afford going to a good university. In the western Europe is where the school system and the good universities tend to be public and really cheap if not free.

The "public" health insurance in USA is not a good example neither, even with the last health reform, inst anything that we already don't have in Europe.

I think that the Nordic countries could be a good example of mixed economies, with a regulated free market, strong employment rules, and some big national enterprises partly nationalised (like oil industry in Norway, or energy and railways systems in Sweden, Denmark).

If not, Germany or Netherlands can be also good examples that can give the people a real idea of what a mixed economy is. --Living001 (talk) 12:57, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

I did a WP:BOLD delete. If there is to be a section devoted to one example of a mixed economy it cannot surely be the U.S. which has the least government involvement of any major economy. --Hauskalainen (talk) 22:12, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

I agree that the USA is a bad example of a mixed economy. A better example would be, for example, Sweden, Canada or Germany. It is misleading people to think that the USA is a good example of a mixed economy when it is actually one of the worst. The USA is a terrible example and should be removed from this article. This is not to mention the fact that none of the statements have any sources cited. Vinniejhall (talk) 02:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Obviously, I completely agree with you. I think the USA section must be removed, if someone wants, another country like Sweden, Denmark, Holland or Germany can be added --Living001 (talk) 10:05, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

usa is a mixed economy as well - it is just a different mix 91.89.243.218 (talk) 13:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Remove unsourced "Elements of a Mixed Economy"?

The section entitled "Elements of a Mixed Economy" has been flagged for being entirely unsourced since 2012 and should be removed. While much of the content in the list is factual, the list basically describes the American or West European capitalist economic models and does not fully encompass all the relevant definitions of a "mixed economy" and should be removed from the article. Specifically, the vast majority of the content listed is compatible with "standard" capitalist market economies, and some of the content has little to do with economics (such as freedom of speech, communication, protest, etc.). -Battlecry 05:53, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

It is clear from your statement "Specifically, the vast majority of the content listed is compatible with "standard" capitalist market economies" that you have very little knowledge of economic history. Many of content items listed were not in the definition of Capitalism in the early 1800's. They were ideas that were advanced by, for a lack of a better term, Socialist political science thinkers trying to resolve the economic problems that Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution created in their countries. Since all the countries you listed adopted the Socialist ideas, they are considered to have a Mixed Economic System, not a Capitalist economic system To acquire this knowledge you have to know that the Economics as a specific filed of study at college and universities only occurred in the early 1900's. Prior to then Economics study was originally part of the Political Science Departments in colleges and universities. Since I was both a Political Science major and Economics major I have a deeper understanding of the origins and thoughts regarding the beginnings of Economics and the definitions of Capitalism. I also know from teaching economics that early beginnings of Economic thought is not covered in Economics courses. It was covered in my History of Political Thought class and we discussed the early writers and the thoughts of the individuals that shaped the ideas of Capitalism, Socialism and Communism. My class was taught by a professor from Austria who had a PhD in History of Political Thought from a European University and graduated in the early 1930's. Since all of the Political and Economic thoughts regarding Capitalism, Socialism and Communism were being develop by European writers and political scientists prior to the early 1900's and my professor spent the first 30 years of his life in Europe and saw first hand the implementation of many of the Socialist concepts in Europe, I am very confident that Dr. Wolfe had an excellent understanding of the original concepts of Capitalism, Socialism and Communism as they were developing in the 1800's and implemented into the European countries that you refer to as Capitalist countries. Akdlc (talk) 11:41, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

"The Elements of a Mixed Economy" SHOULD BE RETAINED. It is an excellent list of combination of Capitalism and the Socialist concepts that were adopted by countries to improve the quality of life and standard of living for all citizens of a country. A Mixed Economic system incorporates the best of the Political and Economic thought regarding Socialism and Capitalism of the last 200 years and the Mixed Economic systems with democratically elected representatives are the most prosperous and have the highest standard of living. Akdlc (talk) 11:59, 16 February 2015 (UTC)