econ chapter two
Across
- 2. independent polish labor union founded in 1980 by Lech Walesa
- 3. economic system characterized by a central authority that makes most major economic decisions
- 5. production process requiring large amounts of capital in relation to labor
- 6. conversion of state-owned factories and other property to private ownership
- 8. economic system in which the allocation of scarse resources, and economic activity, is the result of ritual, habit, or custom
- 13. certificates that can be used to purchase government owned property during privatilization
- 14. gross domestic product on a per person bias; can be expressed in current or constant dollars
- 15. shift of an economy, or part of an economy, from private to government ownership
- 16. market in which goods and services and sold illegally
- 17. the number of people per square mile land area
- 19. independently owned groups of japanese firms joined and governed by an external board of directors to regulate competition
- 20. forced common ownership of factors of production; used in agriculture and manufacturing in former societ union
- 22. fundamental restructuring of soviet economy; policy intorduced by Gorbachev
- 23. economic system in which private citizens own and use the factors of production in order to generate profits
- 24. meeting place or arrangement through which buyers and sellers interact to determine price and quantity of an economic product; may be local, regional, national, or global
- 25. central planning authority in the former soviet union that ddevised and directed five year plans
Down
- 1. china's second five year plan, began in 1958, forced a collectivization of agriculture and rapid industrilization
- 4. worst period of economic decline in US history, lasting from 1929-1939
- 7. economic system that has some combination of traditional, market, and command economies
- 9. economic system in which government owns some factors of production and has a role in determining what and how goods are produced
- 10. economic and political system in which factors of production are collectivly owned and directed by state; a theoretically classless society in which everyone works for the common good
- 11. economic system in which supply, demand, and the price system help people allocate resources and make what, how, for whom decisions; same as free enterprise
- 12. comprehensive, centralized economic plan used by the soviet union and china to coordinate development of agriculture and industry
- 18. organized way a society provides for the wants and needs of its people
- 21. successor of european cola and steel community established in 1993 by Moastricht Treaty