click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
BE 204/205 10/28
Business essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capitial goods | Manufactured or constructed that are used to produce goods and services |
| Competition | The rivalry between two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars |
| Economic Resources: | he human, natural, and capital goods used to produce goods and services. |
| Economic System | The organized way a country handles its economic decisions. |
| Enreprenueur | An idividual who: invents, develops, and distributes a good or provides a service; assumes the risk of starting and building a business; and receives personal and finacial rewards for her/his efforts |
| Huma resourses | people who work to produce goods or services |
| Market Economy | A system where individuals and businesses answer economic questions through the marketplace. |
| Market place | Anywhere the buying and / or selling of goods and services takes place |
| Mixed System | An economic system that blends market and command elements, where individuals make most decisions but government has some control. |
| Natural resources | Items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services |
| Price-directed system | A descriptive term for the american private enterprise economy because price determines what people buy, the jobs take, the success or failure of businesse, and the products that will be produced |
| Private enterprise | An economic system in which indivisuals and groups, rather than the government, own or control the means of production; also know as free market economy, private profit system, market system, capitalistic system, or free enterprise system |
| Private property | Anything of value that people own |
| profit |