economics vocab chapter 2
Across
- 3. certificates that could be used to purchase government-owned property during privatization.
- 6. successor of the European coal and steel community established in 1933 by the maastritch Treaty.
- 9. independently owned group of Japanese firms joined and governed by an external board or directors in order to regulate competition.
- 10. organized way a society provides for the wants and needs of its people.
- 12. economic system characterized by a central authority that makes most of the major economic decisions.
- 13. China's second Five-Year plan,begun in 1958, which forced collectivization of agriculture and rapid industrialization.
- 15. shift of an economy, or a part of an economy,from private ownership to government ownership.
- 16. policy introduced by Gorbachev.
- 19. economic system in which the allocation of scarce resources and other economic activity is the result of ritual, habit, or custom.
- 20. gross domestic product on a per person basis.
- 21. central planning authority in the former soviet union that devised and directed Five-Year Plans.
- 22. number of people per square mile of land area.
- 23. economic and political system in which factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state.
Down
- 1. conversion of state-owned factories and other property to private ownership.
- 2. worst period of economic decline in U.S. history, lasting from approximately 1929 to 1939.
- 4. meeting place or arrangement through which buyer and sellers interact to determine price and quantity of an economic product.
- 5. economic system that has some combination or traditional, command, and market economies.
- 7. independent polish labor union founded in 1980 by lech walesa.
- 8. economic system in which government owns some factors of production and has a role in determining what and how goods are produced.
- 11. economic system in which private citizens own and use the factors of production in order to generate profits.
- 12. forced common ownership of the factors of production.
- 14. 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.
- 17. market in which goods and services are sold illegally.
- 18. comprehensive, centralized economic plan used by the soviet union and china to coordinate development of agriculture and industry.