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Entrepreneurship 1.1
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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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 |