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Entrepreneurship 1.1
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| entrepreneur | inidividual who undertakes the creation, organization, and ownership of a business |
| venture | new business undertaking that involves risk |
| economics | study of how people choose to allocate scarce resources to fulfill their unlimited wants |
| free enterprise system | also called capitalism |
| profit | money kept after all expenses of running a business have been deducted from income |
| oligopoly | market structure in which there are few competing firms |
| goods | tangible products |
| services | intangible products |
| want | something you do not have to have for survivial |
| need | basic requirement for survivial |
| factors of production | resources busineses use to produce goods and services people want |
| scarcity | demand exceeds supply |
| market structure | nature and degree of competition among businesses operating in the same industry |
| monopoly | market structure in which only who company has control of the industry |
| demand | quantity of goods/services consumers are willing and able to buy |
| elastic demand | change in price creates a change in demand |
| inelastic demand | change in price has very little effect on demand |
| diminishing marginal utility | price alone does not determine demand |
| supply | amount of goods/services producers are willing to provide |
| equilibrium | point at which consumers buy all of a product that is supplied |
| Gross Domestic Product | total market values of goods and services produced by a nation during a given period |
| business cycle | periodic random pattern of expansion and contraction the economy goes through |