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An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system. The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
市場型經(jīng)濟中的一個重要因素是反映消費者需求以及生產(chǎn)者對消費者需求做出反應的機制。在美國經(jīng)濟中，這一機制是由價格體制體現(xiàn)的，價格隨消費者的相對需求與產(chǎn)銷者的供應情況而上下浮動。如果供不應求，價格就上升，有些消費者就會被排擠出市場。另一方面，某種產(chǎn)品大量生產(chǎn)導致成本下降，產(chǎn)銷者提供的產(chǎn)品就會增加，這就會使價格下跌，那么，更多的消費者就購買該產(chǎn)品。因此，價格是美國經(jīng)濟體制中的調(diào)節(jié)機制。 私有企業(yè)經(jīng)濟的一個重要因素是允許個人擁有生產(chǎn)資料（私有財產(chǎn)），允許他們雇用勞動力，控制自然資源，通過生產(chǎn)產(chǎn)品、提供服務來獲取利潤。在美國經(jīng)濟中，私有財產(chǎn)的概念不僅包括生產(chǎn)資料的所有權(quán)，也包括一定的權(quán)利，比如，產(chǎn)品價格的決定權(quán)或與其他私有個體的自由簽約權(quán)。