Chapter Two
Across
- 3. Shift of an economy from private ownership to government ownership.
- 5. Independently owned group of Japanese firms joined and governed by an external board of directors in order to regulate competition.
- 7. Successor of the European coal and steel community established in 1993 by the Maastricht Treaty.
- 8. Economic system in which supply, demand, and the price system help people allocate resources and make the WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM to produce decisions; the same as a free enterprise economy.
- 9. Worst period of economic decline in U.S. history, lasting from 1929-1939.
- 12. Economic system that has some combination of traditional, command, and market economies; also see modified free enterprise economy.
- 13. Economic system in which private citizens own and use the factors of production in order to generate profits.
- 19. Gross domestic product on a personal basis; can be expressed in current or constant dollars.
- 20. Number of people per square mile of land area.
- 22. Entering into an activity
- 23. Certificates that could be used to purchase government-owned property during privatization.
- 24. An economic and political system in which the government owns some, but not all of the factors of production
Down
- 1. The use of scarce resources
- 2. Market in which goods and services are sold illegally.
- 4. China's second Five-Year Plan, began in 1958, which forced the collectivization of agriculture and rapid industrialization.
- 6. Forced common ownership of factors of production/ used in the former Soviet Union in agriculture and manufacturing.
- 10. Comprehensive was the centralized economic plan used by the Soviet Union and China to coordinate the development of agriculture and industry.
- 11. Independent Polish Labor Union founded in 1980 by Lech Waksa
- 14. Central planning authority in the former Soviet Union that devised and directed Five Year Plans.
- 15. A central authority makes the major decisions about WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM to produce
- 16. Fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy; policy introduced by Gorbachev.
- 17. Economic and political system in which factors of production and collectively owned and directed by the state; a theoretical class society in which everyone works for the common good.
- 18. 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.
- 21. Conversion of state-owned factories and other property to private ownership.