Marketing Plan: Product Identification and SWOT Analysis What to Do This week, you will be creating components of your capstone marketing plan assignment. You will then finish your plan in Week 5.


Locate a recent article (published within the last year) that discusses capitalism and economic market systems in the United States. You can use the Hunt Library, economic journals, newspapers, new stations, or other credible sources to locate an article. Analyze your article, review the assigned readings and then discuss the concepts of capitalism, market, and economic systems and policy.


Address the following in your discussion.

  • Explain how capitalism began. 

  • Discuss different market economic systems. 

  • Evaluate the pros and cons associated with capitalism and market economic systems including answers to these questions:

    • Which type of economic systems you believe are most effective and why? 

    • Does capitalism best describe the economy of the United States?

Summarize your findings using at least 250 words and provide a minimum of one reference. Use current APA formatting to document your sources.