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BE 204
Business Essential
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| capital goods | manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and provide services |
| competition | the rivalry between two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars |
| economic resources | the human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services |
| economic system | the organized way in which a country handles its economic decisions and solves its economic problems |
| entrepreneur | an individual who invents develops snd distributes a good or provides a service |
| human reasource | people who work to produce goods or services |
| market economy | an economic system in which of what how and whom goods will be prodced for are answered by individuals and buisnesses in the marketplace |
| marketplace | anywhere the buying and or selling of goods and services takes place |
| mixed system | a economic system in which indivudivals make most economic descisions but some goverment |
| natural reasources | items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services |
| price directed system | a descriptive term for american private enterprice econmy because price determins what people buy, the jobs they take,they sucsess or failure of buisenesses and the products |
| private enterprise | an economic system in which individuals and groups rather than the goverment own or control the means of production also known as free market |
| private property | anything of value that people own |
| profit | monetary reward a business owner receives for taking the risk involved in investing in a business |
| profit motive | the desire to make a profit which moves people to invest in business |