Relative Size
This country has the world's largest population.
What is India?
This ideology, most famously espoused by Karl Marx, asserts that the working class should own the means of production.
What is socialism/communism?
IMF
International Monetary Fund
This kind of conflict engenders competitively raising trade barriers against one another in an attempt to secure an economic advantage.
What is a trade war?
This economic system preceded capitalism.
What is feudalism?
This country has the world's largest volume of trade.
What is China?
This ideological system largely informs the current world economic and political order.
What is the liberalism?
ICJ
International Court of Justice
This Chinese program has attempted to expand Chinese trade and influence into Africa, Central Asia, and Europe.
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
This institutional form, born amidst European wars and trade and exported via colonialism, is the main unit of international relations.
What is the state?
DAILY DOUBLE: This country has the world's largest oil reserves.
What is Venezuela?
This economic theory, most prominently asserted as fact by the IMF, argues for privatization of industry, cutting public expenditures, and opening trade barriers.
What is neoliberalism?
MENA
Middle East North Africa
This term describes the benefits of focusing production on one or two particular industries which, with free trade, will produce an overall increase in productivity.
This major event in the 20th century sparked the creation of the liberal U.S.-led world order.
What is WW2?
This country has the world's largest lithium reserves.
What is Bolivia?
DAILY DOUBLE: This 18th century historical event is the origin of the concept of a left-right political spectrum.
What is the French Revolution?
UNHCR
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This process has occurred in advanced economies as opening trade barriers have offshored manufacturing jobs to countries with cheaper labor and friendlier tax laws.
What is deindustrialization?
This period of technological improvement and economic change in the 19th century greatly expanded the amount of surplus production in Western economies.
What is the industrial revolution?
This country has the world's largest by population.
What is Japan?
This 19th century political and economic theoretician is most famous for stating "property is theft".
CEDAW
Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
This economist's theories formed the basis of national economic management and the international economic world order after World War II.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
An economic phenomenon, usually preceding a financial crisis, featuring an inflated price relative to underlying value.
What is a bubble or mania?