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Question | Answer |
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natural resources | materials or substances such as minerals and can be used for economic gain. |
human resources | people who make up the workforce of an organization. |
consumer resources | help consumers make smart buying decisions. |
capital resources | goods produced and used to make other goods and services. |
command economy | an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government. |
market economy | a system where the laws of supply and demand direct the production of goods and services. |
traditional economy | economic system in which traditions, customs, and beliefs help shape the goods and services the economy produces. |
mixed economy | an economic system combines private an public enterprise. |
what are the three economic questions? | what should we produce? how should we produce it? for whom would we produce it? |
depression | sustained, long-term downturn/decrease. |
recession | when there is a general decline in economic activity. |
recovery | follows the process of recession in a business cycle. |
prosperity | when the economy quickly grows. |
supply | make (something needed or wanted) available to someone. |
demand | an insistent and peremptory request,made as if by right. |
quantity | the amount or number of a material or immaterial thing not usually estimated by special measurement. |
imports | bring (goods or services) to another country for sale. |
sole proprietorship | simplest business form under which one can operate a business. |
corporation | company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity. |
partnership | formal arrangement by two or more parties to manage and operate a business and share profits. |
nonprofit | not making or conducted primarily to make a profit. |
the product of input in a relation to a unit of output is____________ | productivity |
____________are what a company owes. | liabilities |
you are a____________when you select. purchase, use or dispose of goods and services. | consumer |
a______________ occurs when a government spends less than it takes in. | budget surplus |
___________is the value of a currency of one country compared with the value of another. | exchange rate |
a retailer that often emphasizes the sale of large quantities at reasonable prices is a___________ | whole saler |
raw materials supplied by nature are_____________ | natural resources |
a chart that shows how a business is structured and who is in charge of whom is____________ | organizational chart |