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a.
free enterprise
k.
factor payments
b.
command economy
l.
consumer sovereignty
c.
household
m.
invisible hand
d.
competition
n.
communism
e.
economic system
o.
firm
f.
communist
p.
factor market
g.
Adam Smith
q.
collective
h.
centrally planned economy
r.
incentive
i.
continuum
s.
authoritarian
j.
heavy industry
 

 1. 

the method used by a society to produce and distribute goods and services
 

 2. 

a person or group of people living in the same residence
 

 3. 

an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control; and determined in a free market
 

 4. 

a range with no clear divisions
 

 5. 

the income people receive for supplying factors of production, such as land, labor, or capital
 

 6. 

an organization that uses resources to produce a product, which it then sells
 

 7. 

the struggle among producers for the dollars of consumers
 

 8. 

large farm leased from the state to groups of peasant farmers
 

 9. 

economic system in which the central government makes all decisions on the production and consumption of goods and services
 

 10. 

the father of modern Capitalism
 

 11. 

industry that requires a large capital investment and that produces items used in other industries
 

 12. 

The term was adopted by the Bolsheviks
 

 13. 

the power of consumers to decide what gets produced
 

 14. 

requiring strict obedience to an authority, such as a dictator
 

 15. 

an expectation that encourages people to behave in a certain way
 

 16. 

market in which firms purchase the factors of production from households
 

 17. 

a political system characterized by a centrally planned economy with all economic and political power resting in the hands of the central government
 

 18. 

term economists use to describe the self regulating nature of the marketplace
 

 19. 

economic system in which a central authority is in command of the economy; a centrally planned economy
 



 
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