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Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneur | an individual who undertakes the creation, organization, and ownership of an innovative business with potential for growth |
| Venture | new business undertaking which involves risk |
| Economics | study of how people use their resources to satisfy wants and needs |
| free enterprise system | People choose what they buy, can own property, can choose to start a business and make a profit, and has competition |
| profit | money after all expenses have been paid |
| oligopoly | Few competing firms: Auto industry=good example, Several large firms influence price |
| goods | physical products of companies that they use to sell to people to make a profit |
| services | tasks assigned to employees designed to help people with everyday things |
| need | a thing you have to have in order to survive |
| want | something that you want, but is not necessary, to or for life |
| factors of production | labor, land, capital, entrepreneurship |
| scarcity | few and far between, money needs to be this |
| market structure | nature and degree of competition among businesses in the same industry |
| monopoly | one seller dominates the industry |
| demand | a want for something in society |
| elastic demand | price changes, demand changes |
| inelastic demand | price changes, demand does not change |
| diminishing marginal utility | price alone does not determine demand |
| supply | how much of an item you have |
| equilibrium | demand and supply balance out/equal each otherq |
| Gross Domestic Product | sum of all goods made in a country; the higher it is, the better standard of living |
| business cycle | composed of 4 parts - Prosperity, Recession, Depression, and Recovery |