Angie's Chapter 2
Across
- 3. fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy; policy introduced by Gorbachev
- 4. worst period of economic decline in U.S. History, lasting from 1929-1939
- 6. china's second five-year plan, which began in 1958, and forced collectivization of agriculture and rapid industrialization
- 7. conversion of state-owned factories and other property to private ownership
- 13. production processes requiring large amounts of capital in relation to labor
- 14. economic and political system in which factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state; a theoretically classless society in which everyone works for the common good
- 17. comprehensive, centralized economic plan used by the soviet union and China to coordinate the development of agriculture and industry
- 20. shift of an economy or part of an economy from private ownership to government ownership
- 22. central planning authority in the former soviet union that devised and directed five-year plans
- 23. economic system characterized by a central authority that makes most of the major economic decisions
- 24. independent Polish labor union founded in 1980 by Lech Walesa
- 25. economic system in which government owns some factors of production and has a role in determining what and how goods are produced
Down
- 1. organized way a society provides for the wants and needs of its people
- 2. Successor of the European Coal and steel community established in 1993 by the Maastricht Treaty
- 5. GDP on a per-person basis; can be expressed in current or constant dollars
- 8. certificates that could be used to purchase government-owned property during the privatization
- 9. economic system in which private citizens own and use the factors of production in order to generate profits
- 10. forced common ownership of factors of production; used in the former soviet union in agriculture and manufacturing
- 11. meeting place or arrangement through which buyers and sellers interact to determine the price and quantity of an economic product; may be local, regional, national, or global
- 12. economic system in which the allocation of scarce resources, and other economic activity is the result of ritual, habit, or custom
- 15. economic system in which supply, demand, and price system helps people allocate resources and make the WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM to produce decisions; same as free enterprise economy
- 16. Number of people per square mile of land area
- 18. Market in which goods and services are sold illegally
- 19. economic system that has some combination of traditional, command, and market economies; also see modified free enterprise economy
- 21. independently owned group of Japanese firms joined and governed by an external board of directors in order to regulate competition