В) Сделайте письменный перевод текста.

25. Найдите в левой колонке определения следующих терминов:

1.Spending money on projects that will generate goods and services for future consumption.(Import)

2.The existence of people who want to work, but are unable to find a job. (Centrally-directed economy)

3.Goods and services sold to another country (Mixrd economy).

4The use of labour, equipment,materials

and energy to produce goods and services. *(Investmen)

5An arrangement between two or more

countries. (Common market)

6Goods and services bought from another country. (Free-market economy)

7A market economy with private and public sectors of economic enterprises. (Unemployment)

8An economic system in which the basic questions of what how and for whom to produce are resolved primarily by governmental authority.(Export)

9An economic system in which resources are allocated by supply and demand mainly without government regulation of markets.

(Production)

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26. ») Просмотрите текст Б. Расположите пункты приведенного ниже
плана в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1. A characteristic feature of a market and especially of a mineral
market.

2. The function of structural analysis of markets.

3. The problem of siting mineral resources in free-market economy.

4. World trade in minerals (fuels, nonfuels, seabed minerals).

5. Competition in free-market economy.

б) Суммируйте содержание текста Б о рынке минералов, используя план и активную лексику.

27. а) Познакомьтесь с приведенной ниже схемой и назовите три основ
ных типа экономических систем по-английски и по-русски и кратко расскажи
те, в чем суть каждой из них.

WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPAL TYPES OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS?

MARKET	CENTRALLY-	MIXED	TRADITIONAL
ECONOMIES	DIRECTED	ECONOMIES	ECONOMIES
	ECONOMIES
are economic	are economic	are economic	are economic
systems in which	systems in which	systems In which	systems in which
the basic questions	the basic questions	the basic questions	the basic
of what, how and	of what, how and	of what, how and	questions of what,
for whom to	for whom to	for whom to	how and for whom
produce are	produce are	produce are	to produce are
resolved by buyers	resolved primarily	resolved by a	resolved primarily
and sellers	by governmental	mixture of market	by custom and
interacting in	authority.	forces with	tradition.
markets.		government
		direction and/or
		custom and
		tradition.

б) Определите, к каким экономическим системам относятся следующее утверждения:

1. Prices function to allocate resources when buyers and sellers
interact.

2. Basic economic decisions depend on authority direction and
tradition.

3. Production is controlled by the government.

4. A system in which resources are allocated by supply and
demand. Buyers and sellers interact.

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5. A system where production through the economy is
coordinated by the authority.

6. A system in which the basic questions of what, how and for
whom to produce are decided by market forces and government.

28. Подготовьте краткое сообщение на тему «Что такое рыночная эконо
мика».

29. а) Прочитайте текст без словаря. Кратко суммируйте его содержание
по-русски.

б) Сделайте письменный перевод части текста, описывающей экономическую теорию Адама Смита.

Слова для понимания текста

coincidence— совпадение

gospel— проповедь

genesis— возникновение

solely— только, исключительно

guess— догадка, предположение

rival— конкурирующий

opulence— изобилие, богатство

bedrock— основной принцип

Today, most people have a hard time understanding what
economists are talking about, but everyone knows what an
economist is — a specialist in a recognized branch of academic
knowledge. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the term
was nothing like as specific. In England it was applied to anyone
who a^prcteched problems by putting⁰every argument and doctrine
on wMtever subject tojhe test of facts.

It was no_r coincidence that England gave birth to the first
industrial revolution and what has since-become known as the
classical school of economics at the same time. The three most
important gospels of this school are Adam Smith's Wealth of
Nations (published in 1776), David Ricardo's Principles of Political
Economy and Taxation (1817), and James Mill's Political Economy
(1821),.

Of these books, the most important is that by Adam Smith. It is the first great classic of economic theory and one of the first known

attempts, to describe economic life as at whole.

The^^rgenesis of The Wealth of Nations exactly mirrors the industrial revolution. Adam Smith was born in 1723, and was a

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student at Glasgow University ia Scotland from 1737 to 1740. Between 1764 and 1766 Smith 'toured Europe. While in France Smith met Voltaire and was greatly influenced by a group of philosophers. On his return from France, Adam Smith sat down to write his great book.

The first key question the book Addresses is what is, wealth? Real wealth mVasured' by the availabiliti consumable goods, and the labour, which produces them. Дп inciease in wealth» equals an increase in goods., and plenty means heap goods. Anything that restricts the availability of goods iteoucei a nation's wealth. National wealth can only increase as trade dees between and within^ nations. For trade to grow you need a market and how the market works is the cdre of Smith's book.

What.makes markers_csuch important creators of wealth is that

they enccmrage the 'drvision'of labour and specialisation.

• _? An effective market _reconomy and_n the civjsed society that it

supports — depends on^a ^erwdrk^o^cb-oper^pn tiiat is neither

""planned ^^.directe^by^a political power. The operation of market

force^lilce^trje dlytsjon of labour, brings great Benefits to society

and 'raises lhe_t sianaa'rd^.pf living, but this benefit ^cannpt be

planned. Buyers and lifersЪ,a market are motivatedjilmost solely

^f inten'ded 'it' If the seller is the sole producer of a popular product, . J^P/t.o 7 ^r^jJ-Zc* ^ЭТ-оы lic^ push its price up as high as the market will bear. But, a his

he wnl push _yits price up Д8 high as Ле market will bea^. But_:,a high price ^wm^attract^Hv^ prb^uper^'dnce^tfieir goods are available in the market, the price will naturally fall. Thus the market is a self-regulating mechanism ^uiqecl not by a government, but by what Smith called "the invisible hand". One of the bedrocks of ^Smith's philosophy is that no government or group of men is'Wile enqugh tp do a better job at managing trade than a market which reflects the guesses and knowledge of millions. Sn^i^i,didn't believe that governments would ever allow trade !p^e_rcpmpietely free and he wrote that the interests of national idefence are always "more important than 7T_f-> in "ГгТ ^ - 9 Q f Qfn «7,F,. * opulence . Under the^ final heading Smith was thinking, of infrastructure projects like rpadj,bndges_; canals and^ajrbours which are expensive and often unprofitable to build but lead to an increase in trade and hence of national wealth. Smith's achievement was Immense: the science Smith discovered was called the modern economy.

by sel.f-interest, but serve "uje public interest without Having

30. Дополните вопросы и попросите вашего сокурсника ответить на них.

1. What ___ you_____ about Adam Smith and David

Ricardo? (say, know)

2. When___ Adam Smith___ ? (be born)

3. What university__ Adam Smith____ to? (go)

4. What ___ Adam Smith____ between 1764 and 1766? (do)

5. Who(m) ____ Adam Smith______ while in France? (meet)

6. Who____ he___ by? (influence)

7. What ___ he___ down to write on his return from

France? (sit)

8. What full title___ Adam Smith_____ to his book? (give)

9. When___ it_____ ? (publish)

10. What ___ the key question of this book? (be)

Расскажите о жизни и деятельности Адама Смита.

32. Прочитайте текст В про себя и скажите по-русски, чем вызвана
необходимость реструктуризации в угледобывающей промышленности США.

Слова для понимания текста:

Capital-intensive — капиталоемкий

To respond — отвечать, реагировать

Uncertainty — ненадежность, неуверенность

Externalities — внешние эффекты

Costs — расходы, издержки

Competency — правомочность

utilities — pi предприятия общественного

Пользования

drive — зд. тенденция

Law — закон

Loan — заем

To hamper — препятствовать, мешать

To encourage — поощрять

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