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Ch 15,16,17,21 Flashcards

1
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Euro

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Currency

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2
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Fiscal

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Balance between taxes and government spending

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3
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Reserve currency

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Stable, trusted money of a major country that is used for international trade

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4
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Euro dollars

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US dollars circulating in Europe

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5
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EMU

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European monetary union devised at Maastricht in 1991

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6
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ECB

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European Central Bank

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7
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Sovereign debit crisis

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A national government owes so much that it could default

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8
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Default

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Country announces it cannot pay its debts

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9
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Devalue

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Currencies worth the declines

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10
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Austerity

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Cutting government expenditures in order to balance budget

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11
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Bailout

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Emergency loan to country or company and difficulty

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12
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Soft power

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Influence to cultural, legal, and moral example

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13
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NATO

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National Atlantic treaty organization 1949

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14
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UNPROFOR

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The 1992-1995 UN protection Force supposed to keep peace in Croatia and Bosnia

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15
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IFOR

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The 1995 Implementation Force

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16
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KFOR

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The 1999 Kosovo Force

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17
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North Atlantic Treaty

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The 1994 treaty of alliance formed NATO

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18
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Common market

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Early and in formal name for European economic community

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19
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Tariff

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Tax on imports

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20
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Confederation

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Political union looser and a federation

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21
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Technocart

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On elected to governing official, usually a financial expert

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22
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Quota

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Numerical limit on imports

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23
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Subsidy

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Government payment to prop up an industry

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24
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Trade blocs

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Geographic regions that trade mostly among themselves and keep non-bloc goods

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25
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Comparative advantage

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the country should make only what they can produce efficiently and trade for other products

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26
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Dumping

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Selling goods a board for less than it cost to produce them

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27
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Standing committee

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Top governing body of China’s Communist Party

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28
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Cadres

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Communist members in official positions, backbone of China system (framework)

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29
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Zhongnanhai

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Beijing compound of China’s top officials

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30
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Archipelago

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Cluster of islands

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31
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Totalitarian

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Dictatorship that attempts total control

32
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Authoritarian

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Dictatorial over regime but milder Totaltarian

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Open door

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1900 US policy of China trade open to all and keeping China intact

34
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Trade deficit

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Buying more from other countries then you sell to them

35
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RMB

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Renminbi “peoples money”, China’s currency

36
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Rapproachement

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French for approaching

37
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Meiji

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Japan’s period of rapid modernization starting in 1868

38
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Manchukuo

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Japanese puppet stage in Manchuria, 1931 to 1945

39
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Non-recognition

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Refusal to grant diplomatic recognition

40
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Embargo

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Ban on shipping goods to certain countries

41
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Attaché

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Military officer serving in an Embassy

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Second order consequence

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Later impact of a policy choice

43
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MITI

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Ministry of international trade and industry

44
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S curve

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Typical pattern of economic growth

45
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Deflation

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Overall, long-term full of prices

46
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Inflation

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Overall, long term rise of prices

47
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Outsourcing

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Moving production to lower-wage countries

48
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Peg

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To fix one currency in relation to another, the opposite of float

49
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Yuan

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China’s currency

50
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Float

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To let market forces cause a currency to rise or fall in relation to others

51
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Protectionism

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Policy of keeping out foreign goods

52
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Trade surplus

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Selling more to other countries than you buy from them

53
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Recession

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Transient, short term economic downturn

54
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Depression

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Major, long term economic down fall

55
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Keynesian economics

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Government spending to boost consumption and fight recession

56
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Exchange rate

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How much one currency buys of another

57
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Fixed exchange rate

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One currently buys a set number of other currencies

58
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Floating exchange rate

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One currency buys varying number of other currencies

59
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Bubble

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Market that has gone too high

60
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Bretton woods

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1944 agreement to fix exchange rates

61
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International monetary fund

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Makes loans to stabilize currencies

62
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World Bank

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Makes loans to lift up poor countries

63
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Special Drawing Rights

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Artificial currency the IMF uses to make loans

64
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Conventional wisdom

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U examined but widely believed assumptions

65
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Purchasing power parity

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True worth of currency

66
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Victorian

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Related to reign Britians Queen of Victoria 1837-1901

67
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World Trade Organization

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UN-related body, successor to GATT, promotes free trade

68
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European Union

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Confederation of most of Europe. Began as common market in 1957

69
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Transnational

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Related to the world as a whole.

70
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Collective group

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Something that all use free, such as air

71
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Arable

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Useable for food growing

72
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Green Revolution

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The 1960s improvements in plant varieties, especially rice

73
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Desiccation

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Drying out

74
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Sahel

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Narrow band south of Sahara

75
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BTC

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Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, pipeline from Azerbaijan through Georgia to the Turkish coast

76
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Riparian

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Country along and with rights to a river

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