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Chapter 3 vocabulary
Economics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Free enterprise | An economic system in which privately owned bussiness have freedom to operate for a profit with limited gov intervention |
| Voluntary exchange | Act of buyers and sellers freely and willingly engaging in market transactions; a characteristic of capitalism and free enterprise |
| Private property rights | fundamental feature of capitalism, which allows individuals to own and control their possessions as they wish, includes both tangible and intangible property |
| Incentive | |
| Profit | |
| Profit motive | Driving force that encourages people and organizations to improve their material well-being; characteristic of capitalism and free enterprise |
| Competition | The struggle among sellers to attract consumers |
| Biofuels | Fuel made form wood, peat, municipal solid waste, straw, corn, tires, landfill gases, fish oils, and other waste |
| Great Recession | Serve economic downturn that lasted from late 2007 through the mid-2009 |
| inflation | sustained rise in the general level of prices of goods and services |
| fixed income | income that does not increase over time |
| consumer sovereignty | role of consumer as ruler of the market in determining the types of goods and services produced |
| mixed economy | economic system that has some combination of traditional, command, and market economies |
| modified free enterprise economy | free enterprise market economy where people carry on their economic affairs freely, but are subject to some government intervention and regulation |
| entrepreneur | risk taking individual in search of profits; one of four factors of production |
| catalyst | something that stimulates activity among people or forces. |
| minimum wage | lowest legal wage that can be paid to most workers |
| adverse | unfavorable or harmful |
| social security | federal program of disability and retirement benefits that covers most working people |
| Medicare | federal health insurance program for senior citizens, regardless of income |