Economics

1. government policies that restrict international trade to help domestic industries
4. a larger economic unit
8. the study of politics, economics and law on a global level
10. a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole
12. an organization not connected to national government; independent and 'stateless'
13. the allocation of goods and resources for promoting social welfare
14. the study of what is likely to happen when individuals make choices due to other factors
16. a nation's exports exceed its imports
17. where a nation utilizes its economic resources fully instead of building a trade surplus
18. the decline of purchasing power of a given currency over time
19. when a person who is actively searching for employment is unable to find work
20. a social science that analyzes and describes the consequences of choices

2. a nation's imports exceed its exports
3. a chemical, biological or radioactive weapon capable of causing widespread death and destruction
5. the unlawful use or threat of violence particularly against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion
6. smaller economic unit
7. field of economics dealing with the strategic behavior of firms, regulatory policy, antitrust policy and market competition
9. to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labor
11. an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber
15. an economic practice by which governments used their economies to augment state power at the expense of other countries