Econ Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. 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
  2. 3. complete, centralized economic plan used by the Soviet Union and China to coordinate development of agriculture and industry
  3. 5. central planning authority in the former Soviet Union that created and directed Five-Year Plans
  4. 7. market in which goods and services are sold illegally
  5. 8. economic system in which government owns some factors of production and has a role in determining what and how goods are produced
  6. 10. conversion of state-owned factories and other property to private ownership
  7. 19. forced common ownership of factors of production; used in the former Soviet Union in agriculture and manufacturing
  8. 20. economic system characterized by a central authority that makes most of the major economic decisions
  9. 21. independently owned group of Japanese firms joined and governed by an external board of directors in order to regulate competition
  10. 22. organized way a society provides for the wants and needs of its people
  11. 24. independent Polish labor union founded in 1980 by Lech Walesa
  12. 25. China’s second Five-Year Plan, begun in 1958, which forced collectivization of agriculture and rapid industrialization
Down
  1. 1. fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy; policy introduced by Gorbachev
  2. 4. established in 1993 by the Maastricht Treaty, its 28 member countries make it the largest single unified market in the world in terms of population and output
  3. 6. shift of an economy, or part of an economy, from private ownership to government ownership
  4. 9. number of people per square mile of land area
  5. 11. certificate that people could use to buy government-owned property during privatization
  6. 12. economic and political system in which factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state; based on a theoretically classless society in which everyone works for the common good
  7. 13. economic system in which the allocation of scarce resources, and other economic activity, is the result of ritual, habit, or custom
  8. 14. gross domestic product on a per person basis; can be expressed in current or constant dollars
  9. 15. production process requiring large amounts of capital in relation to labor
  10. 16. worst period of economic decline in U.S. history, lasting from approximately 1929 to 1939
  11. 17. economic system in which private citizens own and use the factors of production in order to generate profits
  12. 18. economic system that has some combination of traditional, command, and market economies; also see modified free enterprise economy
  13. 23. 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