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The division of labour.  

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Economic system is "a system for coordinating the actions of all the people in a society in order to decide what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce" (Waldron, 2003, P1). Thus, to analyse the effectiveness of economic system is actually to study the its resources efficiency, which includes allocative efficiency, decision about what to produce; and productive efficiency, decision about how to produce; as well as its equity, for whom is to produce. Before explaining how "division of labour" and "comparative advantages" works on economy efficiency, it's necessary to have a look into how it affected to Neo and Angie's dinner last weekend. On last Saturday's together-dinner, Angie and Neo were two selected cooks to make fried beefsteak and vegetable salads. Neo was good at cooking that can fry approximate 8 pieces of beefsteak or made 16 dishes of salads in an hour while Angie can only offer...

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