S.No	Features	Capitalism	Socialism	Mixedism
1.	Ownership of Means of Production	Private Ownership	Public Ownership	Private Ownership and Public Ownership
2.	Economic Motive	Profit	Social Welfare	Social Welfare and Profit Motive
3.	Solution of Central Problems	Free Market System	Central Planning System	Central Planning System and Free Market System
4.	Government Role	Internal Regulation only	Complete Involvement	Limited Role
5.	Income Distribution	Unequal	Equal	Less unequal
6.	Nature of Enterprise	Private Enterprise	Government Enterprise	Both Private and State Enterprises
7.	Economic Freedom	Complete Freedom	Lack of Freedom	Limited Freedom
8	Major Problem	Inequally	Inefficiency	Inequality and Inefficiency

1. Capitalism and socialism are two extreme and opposite approaches.
2. In capitalism, there is total freedom but in socialism, there is no freedom at all.
3. In capitalism, there is private ownership of means of production but there is public ownership of means of production in socialism.
4. Profit is the driving force behind all economic activities in capitalism but it is social welfare under socialism.
5. Capitalism enjoys free market but in socialism there is central planning.
6. There is unequal income distribution in capitalism but there is equal income distribution in socialism.
7. The major problem in capitalism is inequality but it is inefficiency in socialism.

1. In an economy, the fundamental economic activities are production and consumption.
2. These are several other activities.
3. The ultimate aim is to achieve growth.
4. The exchange activity supports production and consumption.
5. These activities are influenced by economic and non economic activities.
6. The economic activities include transportation, banking, advertising, planning.
7. The non-economic activities are environment, education, health, entertainment.
8. The external activities are import, export, international relations, emigration, immigration, foreign investment, foreign exchange earnings.
9. All these activities influence the entire functioning of the economy.

National Income:
(i) Measurement of national income and its composition by sectors are the basic aspects of macro economic analysis.
(ii) It gives a long term understanding of the growth process of an economy.
Inflation:
(i) Estimating the general price level based on wholesale price, index, consumer price.
Business Cycle:
(i) Cyclical movements can be studied based on aggregate economic variables.
Poverty and Unemployment:
(i) Clear understanding about the magnitude of poverty and unemployment helps allocation of resources and adapting corrective measures.
Economic Growth:
(i) The growth and development of an economy and the factors determining them could be understood only through macro analysis.
Economic Policies:
(i) Macro Economics is used to frame economic policies.
(ii) Economic policies are used to solve the basic problems, to overcome the obstacles and to achieve growth.