Industrialization, Capitalism, Laissez-Faire Flashcards
Capitalism
An economic system that relies on the free market pursuit of capital to regulate economic production.
Industrialization
Industrialization involved the expansion of factories to mass produce products. Included dramatic expansion of urban(city) populations and shifted from handmade things to machines.
Economic Systems
Ways of organizing the production and distribution of goods and services. (How we make things and figure out who gets to use it)
The invisible hand
Free market competition that would make sure businesses produced the products people needed in the most efficient way while charging the lowest possible prices.
Laissez Faire
“Let the people be” government policy- the government should not control businesses or economy. No rules or regulations
Who was the man who pushed laissez Faire?
Adam smith