The economic system in the USA is rooted in the Laissez-Faire
capitalism of Adam Smith. However, the real-world setting in the US is not as Laissez-Faire
as Smith would have liked because the government greatly participates as more
than umpire and rule maker. The government take part in American Business by
way of resource or product markets, interest, and especially taxes which
results in making the American business progressed into a mixed economy,
showing both elements of capitalism and socialism.
Other factors such as foreign
competition, the Great Depression, World Wars I and II, and the increasing age
of population have also contributed to the mixed economic system.
