A | B |
to leave alone, "let it be" | Laissez-faire |
economic principle, first postulated by Adam Smith, use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace | Invisible Hand |
markets such that no participants are large enough to have the market power to set the price of a product | Competition |
an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action. | Cooperation |
aact of selection | Choices |
consumer rule the market, determine what is produced | Consumer Sovereignty |
owned by individuals or firms over which their owners have exclusive and absolute legal rights, such as land, buildings, money, copyrights, patents, etc | Private property |
reason to make money or start a business | profit motive |
is any factor that enables or motivates a particular course of action, or counts as a reason for preferring one choice to the alternatives | Incentives |
Book written by Karl Marx | Communist Manifesto |
Book written by Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations |
an economic theory that the government should lower taxes and spend money to start economic recovery | Keynesian Theory |
government expenditure and revenue collection to influence the economy | Fiscal Policy |
the practice of spending funds in excess of income, esp. by a government | Deficit Spending |