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1.1 Entrepreneurship
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneur | individual who undertakes the creation, orginization, and ownership of an innovative business with potential for growth |
| Venture | new business undertaking which involves rish |
| Economics | study of how people use their resources to satisfy wants and needs |
| Free Enterprise System | people choose what to buy, people can own property, people can choose to start a business to make a profit, the competition is GREAT!!! |
| Profit | amount of money made after expenses are paid |
| Oligopoly | few competing firms, auto industry is a good example, several large firms have influence over price |
| Goods | tangible |
| Services | intangible |
| Need | basic requirement for survival |
| Want | don't need it to survive |
| Factors of Production | resources businesses use to produce goods and services: labor, entrepreneurial, capitol, and land |
| Scarcity | not enough, shortage |
| Market Structure | nature and degree of compitition among businesses in the same industry |
| Monopoly | one seller has control over supply/price, discouraged in free enterprise |
| Demand | amount of product public is wanting |
| Elastic Demand | change in price creates change in demand |
| Inelastic Demand | change in price has little effect on demand |
| Diminishing Marginal Utility | price alone does not determine demand |
| Supply | qty producers are willing to provide |
| Equilibrium | neither shortage nor surplus/just right |
| Gross Domestic Product | gross national product excluding payments on foreign investments |
| Business Cycle | periodic random pattern of expansion and contradiction the economy goes through |