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Large fields where wealthy landowners expiremented with more productive seeding and harvesting
Crop Rotation
Best developement by scientific farmers
Factors of Production
Resources needed to produce goods and services that the Industrial Revolution required
Urbanization
Period of city building and the movement of people to cities
Corporation
A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Laissez Faire
Refers to the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference
Capitalism
An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit
Utilitarianism
Philosophy by Bentham in the late 1700s saying people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of their utility or usefulness
Union
Voluntary labor associations that workers joined to press for reforms
Strike
Refuse to work
Utopia
An imaginary land described by THomas More in his book Utopia-hence, an ideal place
Stock
Certain rights of ownership
Entrepreneur
A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business
Socialism
A system where the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all
Author
hlakiyama
ID
50297
Card Set
Chp 9 Voc
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Updated
2010-11-18T00:09:05Z
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