1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.
美國的'經濟是以基本的私有企業和市場導向經濟爲架構的，在這種經濟中，消費者很大程度上通過在市場上爲那些他們最想要的貨品和服務付費來決定什麼應該被製造出來。
2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.
因此，在美國的經濟體系中，個體消費者的需求與商人試圖最大化其利潤的慾望和個人想最大化其收入效用的慾望相結合，一起決定了什麼應該被製造，以及資源如何被用來製造它們。
3. 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.
另一方面，如果大量製造某種商品導致其成本下降，那麼這就有可能增加賣方和製造商能提供的供給，而這也就會反過來降低價格並允許更多的消 費者購買產品。
