There are two fundamental solutions to the economic downside as described by Paul Samuelson, particularly free markets and central panning. Opponents imagine that a free-market economic system can not ensure fundamental social values, corresponding to alleviating poverty, or that the earnings distribution that results from a free-market economic system will not be equitable. A free-market economic system may permit the accumulation of vast wealth and powerful vested interests that might threaten the survival of political freedom. The economic system of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an example of a planned economic system: all choices concerning production and …