City upon a Hill pg.54 Flashcards

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A scottish pulisher and _____ who wrote t

the __________. He is considered the father of modern economic

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Adam Smith

  1. economist
  2. wealth of nations
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An economy ___ that emphasized the importance of ______ gold and Silver to the ______ of a nation. Mecantilists regulated the _____ by encouraging _____ and restricting _____

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Mecantilism

  1. theory
  2. stockpiling
  3. exports
  4. imports
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An economic system in which ______of recources is heavily controlled by _____instead if _______

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Command system

  1. allocation
  2. government
  3. free market taxes
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Economic regulations passed by ___ to enforce _____ in the colonies. All trade had to go through _____ or colonial merchants and be shipped in brittish or colonial ships with the end goal to generate large exports from england, with few ____ so that gold and silver would flow into the motherland

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Navigation Acts 
1. brittish
2. trade regulations 
3 brittish 
4. imports
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The philosophy of a free market economy is which the government serves only to create an acceptable environment in which to make ______

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Capitalism

1. exchanges

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A book written by scottish economists ______ that critisized _____ and proposed a ______ in which the _____ determined parties.

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The wealth of Nations

  1. Adam smith
  2. mercantilism
  3. free market economy
  4. “invisible land”
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