Industrialization, Capitalism, Laissez-Faire Flashcards

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Capitalism

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An economic system that relies on the free market pursuit of capital to regulate economic production.

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Industrialization

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Industrialization involved the expansion of factories to mass produce products. Included dramatic expansion of urban(city) populations and shifted from handmade things to machines.

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Economic Systems

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Ways of organizing the production and distribution of goods and services. (How we make things and figure out who gets to use it)

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The invisible hand

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Free market competition that would make sure businesses produced the products people needed in the most efficient way while charging the lowest possible prices.

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Laissez Faire

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“Let the people be” government policy- the government should not control businesses or economy. No rules or regulations

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Who was the man who pushed laissez Faire?

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Adam smith

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