Crossword Puzzle

2. A Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.
8. Economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control.
9. A Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
10. The ability of people of a society to take economic actions.
14. A multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution.
15. A political theory derived from Karl Marx, leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
16. A German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital.
17. The production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.
18. An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages.

1. A heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
3. An economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism deriving from special interest groups.
4. Refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
5. The transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
6. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
7. A theory that explains the interaction between the sellers of a resource and the buyers for that resource.
11. A French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
12. A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
13. production system widespread in 17th-century western Europe in which merchant-employers “put out” materials to rural producers.