---
title: "SSEF3: Economic Systems Overview (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSEF3
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSEF3
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
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# SSEF3: Economic Systems Overview

Analyze how economic systems influence the choices of individuals, businesses, and governments.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSEF3a**: Analyze how command, market and mixed economic systems answer the three basic economic questions (what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce) to prioritize various social and economic goals such as freedom, security, equity, growth, efficiency, price stability, full employment, and sustainability.
- **SSEF3b**: Compare the roles of government in different economic systems with regards to providing public goods and services, redistributing income, protecting property rights, resolving market failures, regulation and providing consumer protections.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.