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Midterm Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Business | The term for all activities involved in developing and exchanging products. |
| Product | Anything that can be bought or sold. |
| Good | A tangible item with physical attributes you can touch, feel and see. |
| Consumers | An individual who purchase goods and services for their own use. |
| Utility | The characteristics of a product that satisfy wants and needs. |
| Market | Anywhere buyers and sellers meet to buy and sell goods and services. |
| Profit | The difference between the income earned and the expenses incurred by a business during a specific period of time. |
| Economics | A science that examines how goods and services are produced, sold and used. |
| Scarcity | This develops when demand is higher than the available resources, which causes prices to rise as demand increased. |
| Economic System | An organized way in which a nation chooses to use its resources to create goods and services. |
| Market Economy | The individuals are free to make their own economic decisions. |
| Market Forces | The economic factors that affect the price, demand and availability for a good or service. |
| Demand | The quantity of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices. |
| Supply | The quantity of a good or service that business or producers are willing and able to sell at various prices. |
| Innovation | The development or improvement of products, ideas or methods. |
| GDP | The market value of all final products produced in a country during a specific period of time. |
| Inflation | The general rise in prices throughout an economy. |
| Stock Market | A system and marketplace for buying and selling stocks. |
| Stock | A partial ownership of a company or business. |
| Contract | A legally binding agreement between two or more people or businesses. |
| Business Law | Refers to the laws, regulations and legal principles that govern the formation, operation and closure of businesses. |
| Recall | An order to remove or repair unsafe products in the market. |
| Business Ethics | These are principles that help define appropriate behavior in a business setting. |
| Morals | An individual's ideas of what is right and wrong. |
| Social Responsibility | Behaving with sensitivity to social, environmental and economic issues. |
| Philanthropy | Promoting the welfare of others. |
| Market Structure | Refers to how a market is organized based on the number of businesses competing for sales in an industry. |
| Monopoly | A market structure with one business that has complete control of a market's entire supply of goods and services. |
| Proprietorship | A business that is owned and often operated by a single individual. |