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