Across |
2. | stems from ritual, habit, or custom (2 Words) |
3. | an economic system where private citizens own the factors of production |
4. | a rise in the general level of prices |
5. | the lowest legal wage that can be paid to most workers (2 Words) |
8. | the incentive to improve material well-being (2 Words) |
11. | a federal program of disability and retirement benefits that covers most working people (2 Words) |
12. | central authority makes decisions about WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM to produce (2 Words) |
13. | a mixed economic and political system in which the government owns and controls some, but not all of the basic productive resources |
14. | the extent to which persons or organizations are better off financially at the end of a specific period than they were at the beginning |
15. | people make decision in their own best interest (2 Words) |
16. | an organized way of providing for the wants and needs of their people (2 Words) |
17. | an arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to come together to exchange goods and services |
18. | allow people to own and control their possessions as they wish (3 Words) |
19. | the struggle among sellers to attract consumers |
20. | the act of buyers and sellers freely and willingly engaging in market transactions (2 Words) |