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This structured assignment is to accompany the case ''210-025-1''. The abstract of the case is as follows: The reality of unlimited wants and the limited resources to satisfy those wants stares all the economies of the world. Economies - whether capitalist, command or mixed - come face to face with triple basic economic issues of what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce. Different economic systems like market economy, command economy and mixed economy have different ways of dealing with these problems. A market economy like Switzerland lets market forces come to play while a command economy like Cuba gets the controlling hand of government on all the aspects of the economy. In a mixed economy like India, both the government and the private enterprise pair up to set the economy to play. The case is an attempt to study the three types of economies and evaluate their performance in the touchstone of the above-cited central economic problems. Whether the Private enterprise by itself or the Government alone have the greatest potentiality to pull off success, or both are required to do the trick, would come trickling out as one goes through the gripping details of the case. This case can be used to: (1) understand the three problems of economic system; (2) analyse the features of a market economy and how it answers the three economic problems; (3) understand how a command economy functions and the role of government in resolving the three economic problems; and (4) analyse the concept of mixed economy and its way of dealing with the three economic problems.