A | B |
factors of production | resources used to make all goods and services |
capital | human made resources that are used to produce goods and services |
capitalist | person who ownls large business or factories |
entrepreneur | individual who starts business |
free enterprise system | private ownership of capital goods and investment |
supply and demand | economic laws that dictate production and prices of goods |
monopoly | control of a market for a certain good or service |
trust | several corporations conspire to restrain trade |
laissez faire | government should be hands-off in economy |
proletariat | working class |
bourgeoisie | capitalist owners and managers |
nationalization | process of bringing industry under government control |
welfare state | government providing extensive social services |
market economy | economy characterized by laws of supply and demand, free play or competition |
planned economy | economy dictated by the government |
socialism | economy where government runs essential services but allows some capitalism |
communism | collective economy where government owns all factors of production |
five year plan | Stalin's program to increase production |
collectivization | bringing farmland under central planning |
perestroika | allowing some capitalism into Soviet economy |